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{{Short description|1944 wartime meeting of the UK and US governments in Canada}} |
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It helped the Allied powers devise a plan to win the war. |
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| name = Second Quebec Conference |
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| other_titles = Octagon |
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| caption = The Prime Minister's Reception hosted at the [[Château Frontenac]] |
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| date = September 12–16, 1944 |
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| cities = [[Quebec City]], Québec |
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| ⚫ | 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 [[Quebec Conference, 1943|"QUADRANT"]] in August 1943. The chief representatives were [[Winston Churchill]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and the [[Combined Chiefs of Staff]]. Canada's Prime Minister [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] was the host but did not attend the key meetings. |
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| ⚫ | Agreements were reached on the following topics: Allied occupation zones in defeated Germany, the [[Morgenthau Plan]] to demilitarize Germany, continued U.S. [[Lend-Lease]] aid to Britain, and the role of the [[Royal Navy]] in the war against Japan. Based on the Hyde Park Aide-Mémoire, they made plans to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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* [[First Quebec Conference]] |
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* [[List of World War II conferences]] |
* [[List of Allied World War II conferences]] |
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==General references== |
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* {{cite Q |Q130353290 |mode=cs1 |url-status=live |access-date=2024-09-24 }} |
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==Further reading== |
==Further reading== |
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* Bernier, Serge. "Mapping Victory," ''Beaver'' (2008) 88#1 pp 69–72 |
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* John L. Chase [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2126031 "''The Development of the Morgenthau Plan Through the Quebec Conference''"] The [[Journal of Politics]], Vol. 16, No. 2 (May 1954), pp. 324–359 |
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{{Diplomatic history of World War II}} |
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{{Winston Churchill}} |
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* [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?id=FRUS.FRUS1944 United States Department of State ''Foreign relations of the United States, Conference at Quebec, 1944''] |
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Latest revision as of 00:34, 1 October 2024
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| Second Quebec Conference Octagon | |
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 The Prime Minister's Reception hosted at the Château Frontenac | |
| Host country |  Canada |
| Date | September 12–16, 1944 |
| Cities | Quebec City, Québec |
| Participants |  United Kingdom United States |
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. The chief representatives were Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was the host but did not attend the key meetings.
Agreements were reached on the following topics: Allied occupation zones in defeated Germany, the Morgenthau Plan to demilitarize Germany, continued U.S. Lend-Lease aid to Britain, and the role of the Royal Navy in the war against Japan. Based on the Hyde Park Aide-Mémoire, they made plans to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
See also
[edit]General references
[edit]- U.S. Secretary of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, ed. (1944). Papers and Minutes of Meetings of OCTAGON Conference and Minutes of Combined Chiefs of Staff Meetings in London, June 1944 (PDF). Combined Chiefs of Staff. ISBN 1-0755-1300-6. Wikidata Q130353290. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 23, 2024. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
Further reading
[edit]- Bernier, Serge. "Mapping Victory," Beaver (2008) 88#1 pp 69–72
- John L. Chase "The Development of the Morgenthau Plan Through the Quebec Conference" The Journal of Politics, Vol. 16, No. 2 (May 1954), pp. 324–359
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