After securing French North Africa, the Western Allies once again fell into disagreement over the next move.

Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to another conference to discuss the matter, and chose a provocative venue.

Casa Blanca in French Morocco, the city George Patton's Western

Task Force had attacked barely two months ago. A conference in French North Africa would be

something like a victory lab for the Western allies. Welcome to the history of the 20th century. Episode 383, Casa Blanca

As we've worked our way through the first 28 months of the Second World War,

from September 1939 to January, 1943,

you may have come to notice how many times I've talked about conferences among leaders or military commanders of the Allied powers, especially the UK and the US.

These two countries began holding joint strategy meetings even before the United States entered the war,

most notably the Atlantic Conference, when Winston Churchill met with President Franklin Roosevelt

face-to-face for the first time in Newfoundland in August 1941.

This is the conference from which emerged the Atlantic Charter, thus it is sometimes

called the Atlantic Conference. Wikipedia actually has a page titled List of Allied World War II

conferences. There are 31 entries on the list, and I've mentioned most of the ones that have taken

place so far.

Today, I'm going to skip over conferences that mostly involved foreign ministers and military

commanders or minor allies, and consider only the conferences attended by two of the big three,

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin.

After the Atlantic Conference came the Washington Conference,

when Churchill came to Washington, shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, to discuss

joint strategy, Churchill came to Washington again in June, 1942, mostly to dissuade

the Americans from their plan to invade continental Europe in 1942 or 1943. In August

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