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Meeting held from November 28 to December 1, 1943 between President Roosevelt, stalin , and churchill . Conducted in Persia at the stage when world war ii had begun to look winnable for the Allies, these first face-to-face negotiations between the Big Three produced broad agreement about the grand strategy now needed for coordinated attacks on hitler's forces from east, west, and south. Most notable was the Anglo-American promise to ease Stalin's problems by launching during 1944 the Second Front that eventually began with the normandy landings . While generating less conclusive discussions (later resumed at yalta ) about the shape of postwar eastern Europe, the conference also reached some consensus about replacing the league of nations with the kind of body that eventually emerged as the united nations . ... log in or subscribe to read full text