QUEBEC CONFERENCES

two Anglo-American conferences held in the city of Quebec during World War II. The first (Aug. 1124, 1943), code-named Quadrant, was held to discuss plans for the forthcoming Allied invasions of Italy and France and was attended by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Differences between U.S. and British strategists about the coordination of the Italian campaign with Operation Overlord (the planned Normandy invasion) were not resolved and had to be settled at meetings in Moscow, Tehran, and Cairo later that year. Roosevelt and Churchill met again at Quebec the following year (the Octagon Conference, Sept. 1116, 1944). The decision taken there to advance against Germany on two western fronts, instead of making a concerted drive on Berlin, was criticized in the postwar period because it allowed the Soviet Army to take possession of the German capital.