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Cairo Conference
The
Cairo Conference
(codenamed
Sextant
) of November 22–26, 1943, held in
Cairo
,
Egypt
, outlined the
Allied
position against
Japan
during
World War II
and made decisions about postwar
Asia
. The meeting was attended by
President of the United States
Franklin Roosevelt
,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
, and Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek
of the
Republic of China
.
Soviet
leader
Joseph Stalin
did not attend the conference because his meeting with Chiang could have caused friction between the Soviet Union and Japan. (The
Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact
of 1941 was a five-year agreement of neutrality between the two nations; in 1943 the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan, whereas China, the U.K. and the U.S. were.)
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