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Casablanca During World War II, Casablanca was one of the three major landing places in the invasion of North Africa by Allied forces. The city was the site of the Casablanca Conference (January 1943) between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, at which both leaders pledged that their countries would fight until the Axis powers surrendered unconditionally. Malta During World War II (1939-1945) Allied fighter planes and submarines were based on Malta. Consequently, Malta withstood heavy bombing by the German and Italian air forces; in 1942 George VI, king of Great Britain, awarded the colony as a whole the George Cross for heroism. Yalta Conference World War II meeting (February 4-11, 1945), of United States President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the USSR. The conference was held in the vicinity of Yalta, Crimea, in Ukraine. It marked the high point of Allied unity. A communique, known as the Yalta Declaration, was issued by the conference on February 11. It declared the Allied intention to “destroy German militarism and Nazism and to ensure that Germany will never again be able to disturb the peace of the world”; to “bring all war criminals to just and swift punishment”; and to “exact reparation in kind for the destruction wrought by the Germans.” Reference was made to a decision to divide Germany into three zones of occupation and to govern it through a central control commission, situated in Berlin; however, provision was made to invite France “to take over a zone of occupation, and to participate … in the control commission.” Provision was made for a reparations commission to work in Moscow.
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