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1944 SECOND QUEBEC CONFERENCE WWII WINSTON CHURCHILL & FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT SUMMIT 28874

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Channel: PeriscopeFilm · 2018 · Education

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Film short showing the Second Quebec Conference (codenamed "OCTAGON"), 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. The film also shows Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Field Marshall John Dill, Admiral Sir Percy Nobel,  Air Marshall Sir William Welsh. and Gen. George C. Marshall. 

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.

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