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The First Quebec Conference, codenamed Quadrant, was a highly secret military conference held during World War II by the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. It took place in Quebec City on August 17–24, 1943, at both the Citadelle and the Château Frontenac .
The Second Quebec Conference (codenamed "OCTAGON") was a high-level military conference held during World War II by the British and American governments. The conference was held in Quebec City , September 12 – September 16, 1944, and was the second conference to be held in Quebec, after "QUADRANT" in August 1943.
In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences.
The Quebec Conference, 1943, a top-level meetings between the United States and Britain, with Canada as host, to plan strategy in 1944. It also resulted in the Quebec Agreement to share nuclear technology; The Second Quebec Conference, held in 1944. Only the United States and the United Kingdom were represented. It is known mostly for the ...
12: The Second Quebec Conference (codenamed "Octagon") begins: Roosevelt and Churchill discuss military cooperation in the Pacific and the future of Germany. [19] 13: American troops reach the Siegfried Line, the west wall of Germany's defence system. Waves of paratroops land in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in September 1944.
1943 - Quebec Conference, 1943 meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King on August 14. 1944 - April 14 - Creation of Hydro-Québec from the nationalization of Montreal Light, Heat & Power. 1944 - June 6 - Canadian soldiers land at Juno Beach on D-Day, marking the beginning of the liberation of France.
September 11–16, 1944: Quebec City Attended Second Quebec Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff. [4] Harry S. Truman: June 10–12, 1947: Ottawa Official visit; met with the Governor General, the Earl of Athlone and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and addressed Parliament. [6]
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) – war drama film about Captain Ted W. Lawson who was a pilot on the historic Doolittle Raid, America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [169] Wilson (1944) – biographical drama film about the 28th American President Woodrow ...