This guy here with another episode of the History Unplugged podcast, in a recently-bombed

spy-infested Casablanca Maracco, the architects of allied victory in World War 2 met.

It was January 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, George

C. Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, and more assemble secretly at a resort hotel.

They meet together to play the next phase of World War 2 when the tide is just beginning

to turn in the Allies' favor, but it's a long way from over and there are serious divisions

about how to proceed.

One faction of the Americans want to focus their attention on fighting the Japanese, while

they're British through the Nazis as a principal enemy.

They want to launch an invasion of Europe, but don't know when to proceed because Allies

still don't have air supremacy, and they need sort of major overland invasion, risks major

German bombing.

To top it all off, the French leaders appear more concerned with scoring political points

of winning the war and are our constant irritant of the conference.

The delegation eventually hammers out a feasible plan, which involves capturing Sicily to

secure Mediterranean supply routes, an increase in the bombing campaign aimed at Germany,

and a deferral of the invasion of Western Europe until more forces can gather.

In one sense, the conference isn't much more than logistics coordination among the major

Allied players, but in the macro sense, something world historical is taking place, when global

power shifts from the British to the Americans, since everybody sees that there are the major

suppliers of men, weapons, and material systems needed to win the war, and beyond that the

overall post-World War Order.

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