In November 1943, the big three leaders of the Allied powers in World War II,

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin were scheduled to meet in person

for the first time in Tehran.

When the Germans got wind of this, Taylor figured this would be a great opportunity to just kill all of his enemies at once.

Learn more about Operation Long Jump and Hitler's plot to kill all the Allied leaders in one fell swoop in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The Allied nations in World War II didn't come together as a fully formed alliance immediately. It took some time.

In 1939, Britain declared war in Germany after their invasion of Poland.

The Soviets had a non-aggression pact with Germany, which I went over in a previous

episode, and they didn't go to war with Germany until Germany invaded them in 1941.

Once the Soviets were involved, they formed a tenuous alliance with the British.

It wasn't until December of 1941 that the United States joined after they were attacked

by the Japanese and then the Germans decided to unilaterally declare war in the U.S.

Throughout 1942 all of the allies

are basically just trying to hang on. The Soviets were doing their best to

survive the German invasion. The Americans were mobilizing and building up their

military. It wasn't until November of

1942 that they were finally able to put troops on the ground in North Africa and the

British were kept busy fighting off the Germans in North Africa as well as trying

to defend their positions in their colonies.

By 1943, the tide was starting to turn.

The Soviets had stopped the Germans at Stalingrad.

All of the Axis forces in North Africa had been withdrawn.

The Americans began retaking islands from the Japanese

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