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Big Three (World War II)

1941–1945 · 20th century

The Big Three were the principal Allied powers of the Second World War, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union, and their leaders Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. At the conferences of Tehran in 1943 and Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 they coordinated strategy and shaped the post-war settlement of Europe and the founding of the United Nations.

Big Three (World War II)
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