The ‘Big Three‘: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, February 1945
The first meeting of the ‘Big Three’ – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin – took place in November 1943 at the Teheran Conference. Stalin, believing that Russia was bearing the brunt of the war, pushed for the western Allies to launch their attack on Germany from the west. The Big Three met again at Yalta, in the Crimea, in February 1945 (pictured above), where arrangements for the post-war world were discussed, and where Stalin promised a declaration of war against Japan three months following the eventual defeat of Germany.