The Cairo Conference, also known as the Sextant Conference, brought together US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek to plan the war against Japan. It ended in the Cairo Declaration, which said the Allies would fight until Japan surrendered unconditionally, that Japan would be stripped of territories it had seized since 1914, that Manchuria and Taiwan would be returned to China, and that Korea would become free and independent in due course. It was the only wartime meeting attended by Chiang. Roosevelt and Churchill then went on to Tehran to meet Stalin, and the Cairo statement later shaped postwar settlements in East Asia.
Before and after
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- 14 October 1943Birth of Mohammad Khatami
- from 31 October 1943 to 11 December 1943Kerch–Eltigen Operation
- from 1 November 1943 to 21 August 1945Bougainville Campaign
- from 22 November 1943 to 26 November 1943Cairo Conference
- 8 December 1943Birth of Jim Morrison
- 11 December 1943Birth of John Kerry
- 24 December 1943Birth of Tarja Halonen
- 1944Golden Globes
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