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[[File:Atlantic_Charter.jpeg|thumbnail|left|250px|Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Aug. 1941 during the negotiations of the Atlantic Charter]]
The first involvement of the United States in the wartime conferences between the Allied nations opposing the Axis powers actually occurred before the nation formally entered World War II. In August 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met secretly and devised an eight-point statement of war aims known as the Atlantic Charter, which included a pledge that the Allies would not accept territorial changes resulting from the war in Europe. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the wartime conferences focused on establishing a second front.
===The Casablanca Conference, 1943===
[[File:Casablanca_conference.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference, Jan. 14-24, 1943]]
The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco that took place from January 14–24, 1943. While Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin received an invitation, he was unable to attend because the Red Army was engaged in a major offensive against the German Army at the time. The most notable developments at the Conference were the finalization of Allied strategic plans against the Axis powers in 1943, and the promulgation of the policy of “unconditional surrender.”
===The Tehran Conference, 1943===
====The US and Britain agree to launch an invasion of France and USSR would start major Offensive on Eastern Front====