Princess_Alice,_and_Clementine_Churchill.html" ;"title="Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone">Princess Alice, and Clementine Churchill">Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone">Princess Alice, and Clementine Churchill during the conference. The Second Quebec Conference (codenamed "OCTAGON") was a high-level military conference held during World War II by the British and American governments. The conference was held in Quebec City, September 12 – September 16, 1944, and was the second conference to be held in Quebec, after Quebec Conference, 1943, "QUADRANT" in August 1943. The chief representatives were

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...

, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the

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. Canada's Prime Minister

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was the host but did not attend the key meetings. Agreements were reached on the following topics: Allied occupation zones in defeated Germany, the

Morgenthau Plan The Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to eliminate Germany following World War II and eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key industries basic to military strength. This included the removal or destruction of all industr ...

to demilitarize Germany, continued U.S.

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aid to Britain, and the role of the

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in the war against Japan. Based on the Hyde Park Aide-Mémoire, they made plans to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.

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BBC Factfile: Second Quebec Conference
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