Big Three

From 1941 to 1945, United States President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin held various conferences in which they discussed their respective strategies in World War II. Their experiences helped them to formulate a plan to create an international peacekeeping organization with a goal of preventing future wars on the scale of World War II. In April 1945, representatives from 50 countries met in San Francisco to create the charter of the organization that would be called the United Nations.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; World War II; Tehran Conference; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer; United Nations; Stalin, Joseph

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