The meeting occurred in the midst of World War II. Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the leaders of Great Britain and The United States, respectively, had desired a meeting with Joseph Stalin, the leader of Russia, to discuss the strategy the three countries would take in dealing with the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). They all finally met when Stalin agreed to meet the two men in Tehran, Iran, in November 1943.
Stalin insisted the other two powers relieve the pressure on his country by opening up a western front. This would cause Germany to have to fight a war on two sides. During their conversations it was found that Stalin and Roosevelt agreed on the dismantling of the British Empire and that all three men agreed the German state should be dismantled. This would ensure Germany didn’t rise to power for a third time, the second being after the end of World War I.
Great Britain and The United States did eventually attack the German’s western front when they stormed Normandy on D-Day and began the liberation of France in June 1944.
