Tehran Conference: 80 Years Since Meeting That Changed Course of WWII
Joseph Stalin (left), Franklin D. Roosevelt (center) and Winston Churchill (left) with their delegations at the Tehran Conference (November 28, 1943 – December 1, 1943).
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Joseph Stalin (left), Franklin D. Roosevelt (center) and Winston Churchill (left) with their delegations at the Tehran Conference (November 28, 1943 – December 1, 1943).
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The Tehran Conference (November 28, 1943 – December 1, 1943). The meeting of the “Big Three” Allied leaders, Joseph Stalin (USSR), Franklin D. Roosevelt (US), and Winston Churchill (UK), held at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
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The Tehran Conference (November 28, 1943 – December 1, 1943). The meeting of the “Big Three” Allied leaders, Joseph Stalin (USSR), Franklin D. Roosevelt (US), and Winston Churchill (UK), held at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
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The Tehran Conference (November 28, 1943 – December 1, 1943). Standing outside the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran are (left to right): a British officer; General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the US Army (US), shaking hands with Sir Archibald Clark Keer, British Ambassador to the USSR (UK); Harry Hopkins, Joseph Stalin’s interpreter (US); Marshal Joseph Stalin (USSR); Vyacheslav Molotov, foreign premier of the Soviet Union (USSR); and Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, a prominent Soviet military officer (USSR).
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The Tehran Conference (November 28, 1943 – December 1, 1943). Standing outside the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran are (left to right): a British officer; General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the US Army (US), shaking hands with Sir Archibald Clark Keer, British Ambassador to the USSR (UK); Harry Hopkins, Joseph Stalin’s interpreter (US); Marshal Joseph Stalin (USSR); Vyacheslav Molotov, foreign premier of the Soviet Union (USSR); and Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, a prominent Soviet military officer (USSR).
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets Indian Sikh security officers in Tehran, Iran (November 28, 1943). Churchill, who celebrates his 69th birthday on November 30, is in Tehran at a conference with the US president and the Soviet Leader.
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets Indian Sikh security officers in Tehran, Iran (November 28, 1943). Churchill, who celebrates his 69th birthday on November 30, is in Tehran at a conference with the US president and the Soviet Leader.
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UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill presents the Sword of Stalingrad to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on behalf of George VI, the King of the UK. The ceremony takes place in the boardroom of the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
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UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill presents the Sword of Stalingrad to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on behalf of George VI, the King of the UK. The ceremony takes place in the boardroom of the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
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The Tehran Conference (November 28, 1943 – December 1, 1943). Marshal Kliment Voroshilov shows the Stalingrad Sword to the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the conference room at the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, Iran (November 28, 1943). The UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin are also present.
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The Tehran Conference (November 28, 1943 – December 1, 1943). Marshal Kliment Voroshilov shows the Stalingrad Sword to the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the conference room at the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, Iran (November 28, 1943). The UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin are also present.
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UK Foreign Minister Anthony Eden (left), UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill (center), and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (right) at the PM Churchill’s 69th birthday party in Tehran, Iran (November 30, 1943). Stalin and Churchill present for a trilateral meeting with US President Roosevelt.
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UK Foreign Minister Anthony Eden (left), UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill (center), and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (right) at the PM Churchill’s 69th birthday party in Tehran, Iran (November 30, 1943). Stalin and Churchill present for a trilateral meeting with US President Roosevelt.
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UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill wears a caracul (also called qaraqul) wool hat, given to him by the British press as a 69th birthday gift (November 30, 1943). Churchill is in Tehran at a conference with the US president and Soviet Leader.
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UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill wears a caracul (also called qaraqul) wool hat, given to him by the British press as a 69th birthday gift (November 30, 1943). Churchill is in Tehran at a conference with the US president and Soviet Leader.
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The “Big Three,” Franklin D Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (UK), and Joseph Stalin (USSR), sit together at Winston Churchill's 69th birthday party, held in the Victorian Drawing Room at the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran (November 30, 1943).
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The “Big Three,” Franklin D Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (UK), and Joseph Stalin (USSR), sit together at Winston Churchill's 69th birthday party, held in the Victorian Drawing Room at the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran (November 30, 1943).
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Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference (December 1, 1943).
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Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference (December 1, 1943).
