The ‘Big Three’ Teheran
Prelude, Statesmen
Prelude
TASK 1: Identify the steps leading to the cooperation
of the Allies and the ‘Big Three’ conferences.
March 1941
Lend and Lease Act
August 1941
Atlantic Charter
January 1942
Washington Conference
January 1943
Casablanca Conference
October 1943
Moscow Debates
TASK 2: Read the text of the Atlantic Charter. What
were its basic principles?
to the text
Moscow, October 1943
• Meeting of the foreign secretaries of the
USSR, USA and Great Britain
• Agreed on the following:
– Unconditional surrender of Germany
– Joint occupation of Germany
– Denacification
– Creation of the United Nations Organisation
• Prepared the Teheran meeting
Teheran 1943 – main actors
TASK 3: Group Work – Three Groups
look up background information about the main
actors of the Teheran Conference.
Click on the pictures of the statesmen to continue.
Teheran 1943 - agenda
The Big
Three
Agreedthe
on main
the following:
TASK
4: Try
to suggest
points on the
• Coordination
of military activities
agenda
of the conference.
• Opening of the ‘Second Front’ in Europe by
the end of May 1944
• Support of the Yugoslav resistance
movement
• Turkey to join the war (did in Feb 1945)
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Teheran 1943 – the ‘Second Front’
TASK 5: Group Work.
Work in three groups. Which place would you
choose as an ideal location for the ‘Second
Front’ if you represented:
Group A: the USA
to the map
Group B: Great Britain
Group C: Soviet Union
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Mark your answers on the map.
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Teheran 1943 - map
Germany
and its allies
AntiHitler Coalition
neutral
countries
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J.V. Stalin (1878-1953)
TASK
3: in
Read
the profile of
• born
Georgia
Stalin.
What was
his main
• professional
revolutionary
interest
inpower
the conferences?
• rose to
through the
ranks of the communist
party to the profile
• got rid of opposition
• purged the army
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• turned Russia
into an
industrial power
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W. Churchill (1874-1965)
• military
career
TASK
3: Read
the profile of
• war correspondent
Churchill.
What was his main
• Politician, MP-conservative
interest
in the conferences?
• 1911 First Lord of
Admirality
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• 1915 Galipoli Campaign
• criticized appeasement
• May 10,show
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prime
minister
• Greatest Briton
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F.D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
TASK
3: Read the profile of
• Lawyer
Roosevelt.
What
was his main
• Democratic
Party
• Senator
interest
in the conferences?
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•
•
•
Governor of New York
1932 president
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1932 New Deal
The only US president
elected show
moreclues
than twice
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