{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Meetings and agreements: Episode 47","description":"Mussolini was not happy about being in the Axis by 1943. And Stalin refused to attend the Casablanca Conference with Churchill and Roosevelt. Meetings of the summit and other senior leaders of the Axis and Allied powers through the war show the evolution of each side's war aims between 1939 and 1945.\n\nMap: The Kursk salient, spring 1943\n\n\n\n\n\nImage 1: Roosevelt and Churchill aboard the HMS Prince of Wales at the Argentia Conference, August 1941.\n\n\n\nSeated: President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Standing directly behind them: Admiral Ernest J. King, USN; General George C. Marshall, U.S. Army; General Sir John Dill, British Army; Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN; and Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, RN. At rear: Harry Hopkins talking with W. Averell Harriman. Source: Wikimedia Commons.\n\nImage 2: The Second Moscow Conference, August 1942\n\n\n\nLeft to right: UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, USSR Premier Josef Stalin, and W. Averrell Harriman, representing President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Office of War Information Photograph (Wikimedia Commons).\n\nSources:\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nEvan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.\n\nSean McMeekin, Stalin's War. New York: Basic Books, 2021.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017\n\nWikipedia: various pages.\n\nSound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/) .\n\n\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762485/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}