Key facts
- Date
- November 22–26, 1943 ( 1943-11-22 – 1943-11-26 )
- Venue
- Residence of Alexander Comstock Kirk
- Location
- Cairo , Egypt
- Also known as
- Sextant ( codename )
- Participants
- Chiang Kai-shek ( China ) Winston Churchill ( UK ) Franklin D. Roosevelt ( US )
- Outcome
- Establishing the Cairo Declaration
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- convention
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Cairo
- Image
- Cairo conference.jpg
- Participant
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- end time
- 1943-11-26
- Commons category
- Cairo Conference
- start time
- 1943-11-22
- time period
- World War II
- inception
- 1943-11-22
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1943-12-07
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Encyclopedic overview
The Cairo Conference (codenamed Sextant), also known as the First Cairo Conference, was one of fourteen summit meetings during World War II, which took place on 22–26 November 1943. The Conference was held at Cairo in Egypt between China, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Attended by Chairman of the National Government of China Chiang Kai-shek, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it outlined the Allied position against the Empire of Japan during World War II and made decisions about post-war Asia.
The Conference agenda was to formulate a strategy to counterattack the Empire of Japan, make arrangements for the post-war international situation and coordinate the counter-attack on Burma and the aid to China. The Cairo Declaration, issued after the conference, demanded Japan's unconditional surrender, the return to China of all occupied lands, and the shaping of a new post-war East Asia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cairo Conference” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.