The Call for an Axis Unconditional Surrender in WWII

The Casablanca Conference of January 1943, code-named Symbol, was a meeting between US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to agree on how they should proceed in the Second World War (1939-45). Joseph Stalin was not at the conference. The most significant decision announced at Casablanca, one taken by the United States alone, was that the Axis powers must unconditionally surrender, a policy decision that may actually have extended the war and one which, in the event, helped achieve US dominance of the post-war world.