Tehran Conference

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/tehran-conference

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the conference location?Soviet Embassy, Tehran, Iran
2. What is the key participants?Joseph Stalin (USSR), Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA), Winston Churchill (UK)
3. Who were the leaders that met at Tehran?Joseph Stalin from the Soviet Union, Franklin D. Roosevelt from the United States, and Winston Churchill from the United Kingdom.
4. Why did they choose Tehran for the meeting?Tehran was a neutral place that all three leaders could reach easily, and it helped keep important supply routes open for the Soviet Union.

Grand Alliance: The wartime alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union against the Axis powers.
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