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ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL PLOT NEXT PHASE OF WAR
ByNorm Haskett January 14, 2014 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Casablanca, Morocco, North Africa · January 14, 1943 This date in 1943 saw the start of the ten-day Casablanca Conference at a seaside resort in Morocco between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and their Combined Chiefs of Staff. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had been invited to the summit but reportedly…

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PÉTAIN, MARSHAL PHILIPPE (1856–1951)
ByNorm Haskett June 9, 2012 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Pétain’s defense at the ten-month-long Battle of Verdun during World War I made the then general a national hero. During the crisis of May 1940, when Hitler launched his blitzkrieg offensive in the West, it became clear that French forces were overwhelmed and that military collapse was imminent. Maréchal (Marshal) Pétain, who had been called out…

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