There was also the fact that by the time he meets Mr. Khrushchev, the President will have completed conversations with all the other principal Allied leaders.

The Allied leaders were " thunderstruck " by this from a political standpoint, though none of them had offered Eisenhower guidance with the problem in the course of planning the operation.

The matter was a lesson learned for Eisenhower in terms of future communications with the Allied leaders.

Eisenhower's first struggles however were with Allied leaders and officers on matters vital to the success of the Normandy invasion ; he argued with Roosevelt over an essential agreement with de Gaulle to use French resistance forces in covert and sabotage operations against the Germans in advance of Overlord.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

* 1945 – World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

British and French leaders believed that the deterrent value of the “ peace front ” could be increased if Turkey were a member and if the Turkish Straits were open to Allied ships.

After the Partisans managed to endure and avoid these intense Axis attacks between January and June 1943, and the extent of Chetnik collaboration became evident, Allied leaders switched their support from Draža Mihailović to Tito.

* July 17 – August 2 – WWII – Potsdam Conference: At Potsdam, the three main Allied leaders hold their final summit of the war.

In addition, there was a tendency in the 1950s to present Wehrmacht leaders as noble and high-minded and thus morally superior to the Allied commanders who had defeated them with the implication that the wrong side had won.

As the war went on, residents of Munich came increasingly to dread the approach of the anniversary, concerned that the presence of the top Nazi leaders in their city would act as a magnet for Allied bombers.

On 26 July 1945, Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded Japan's unconditional surrender.

Some Allied leaders saw the emperor as the primary factor in Japan's warlike behavior.

Because of this he was perhaps one of the most knowledgeable Norwegian military leaders and was respected by other Allied leaders for his knowledge and leadership skills.

It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the " Big Three " Allied leaders ( the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom ).

German intelligence was aware of this high profile meeting of the Allied wartime leaders, and tried to set up an assassination plot against them, called Operation Long Jump.

Macmillan ( top row, left ) with Allied military leaders in the Sicilian campaign, 1943.

Irving's book faulted the Allied leaders, most notably Winston Churchill, for the eventual escalation of war, and claimed that the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was a " preventive war " forced on Hitler to avert an alleged impending Soviet attack.

Irving claimed that the Holocaust was not the work of Nazi leaders, but rather of " nameless criminals ", and furthermore claimed that " these men killed the Jews acted on their own impulse, their own initiative, within the general atmosphere of brutality created by the Second World War, in which of course Allied bombings played a part.

In the December 1941, at the Arcadia Conference, the Allied leaders agreed to the " Germany first " principle whereby Germany was to be defeated first, and then Japan.

* The Big Four ( World War I ), the main Allied leaders and participants in the Paris Peace Conference

In 1944, when he travelled to Washington and London for meetings with Roosevelt, Churchill and other Allied leaders, he already had heart disease, and in early 1945 his health deteriorated still more obviously.

Some songs included lyrics ridiculing and abusing the leaders and people of Allied nations.

* 1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.

* 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

* 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia ( currently known as Jayapura ) area of New Guinea.

* 1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.

* 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.

* 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class " A " League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.

The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.

He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

* Brewster Buffalo, or Brewster F2A, a U. S. fighter plane which saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces during World War II

* Buffalo or Water Buffalo, British designation for Landing Vehicle Tracked, an amphibious vehicle used by Allied forces during World War II

Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in the Second World War as a means for world peace.

Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.

In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors.

Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers.

One of the most powerful guns to see service in World War II, it was capable of destroying any Allied tank at very long ranges.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

The statue is located in front of the current US Embassy, London and across from the former command center for the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II, offices Eisenhower occupied during the war.

* 1943 – World War II: U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.

Around 10, 000 Allied troops arrived in Darwin in the early 1940s at the outset of World War II, in order to defend Australia's northern coastline.