On December 22, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington, D.C., for a series of meetings with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on a unified Anglo-American war strategy and future peace.
Since the United States was directly involved in the Pacific War and the European War, it was the responsibility of Britain and the United States to create and build a united front. To this end, Churchill and Roosevelt formed the Joint General Staff to coordinate military strategy against Germany and Japan and to draw up plans for a future joint invasion of the European continent.
Roosevelt also agreed to dramatically increase the U.S. arms production program: by the end of 1943, the number of aircraft ready for service had increased from 12,750 to 45,000, the proposed 15,450 tanks had become 45,000, and the number of machine guns produced had nearly doubled to 500,000.
One of the major outcomes of this US-British conference was a statement by Churchill and Roosevelt, in which the 26 signatories were called upon to use all the resources at their disposal to defeat the Axis powers, rather than seek a separate peace.
This alliance calls itself the "United Nations". Led by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, all 26 countries have declared a unified goal of "ensuring life, liberty, independence, and freedom of religion, and upholding human rights and justice."
The blueprint for the destruction of fascism and the future international peacekeeping organization was born.
