The Casablanca Conference of January 1943, code-named Symbol, was a meeting between US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to agree on how they should proceed in the Second World War (1939-45). Joseph Stalin was not at the conference. The most significant decision announced at Casablanca, one taken by the United States alone, was that the Axis powers must unconditionally surrender, a policy decision that may actually have extended the war and one which, in the event, helped achieve US dominance of the post-war world.
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14 Jan 1943Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the first US President to fly overseas, traveling from Miami, Florida to Casablanca, Morocco to meet with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss World War II strategies.
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14 Jan 1943 - 24 Jan 1943Roosevelt and Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference during WWII.
