What was the Casablanca Conference?
Feb 12, 1943 The Casablanca Conference was attended by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the respective leaders of the United States and Great Britain. Notable by his absence was the Soviet leader, Josef Stalin. His country and Germany were still locked in the epic battle for Stalingrad, and its fate was still in the balance, necessitating his presence at home. Although Roosevelt and Churchill spoke mostly of the Pacific war in this document, the emphasis on unconditional surrender was designed to stiffen Russian morale and to prevent a separate German-Soviet peace. This document has relevance to Italy as well. The decisions reached and the actual plans made at Casablanca were not confined to any one theater of war or to any one continent or ocean or sea.
