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Casablanca Conference Casablanca Conference
Casablanca Conference Jan. 14-24, 1943, World War II meeting of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Casablanca, French Morocco. A joint declaration pledged that the war would end only with the unconditional surrender of the Axis states. No... Read more
Casablanca Casablanca
Casablanca , Arab. Dar-al-Baida, city (1994 est. pop. 2,940,623), W Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean. The largest city and principal port of Morocco, it accounts for more than half of Morocco's industrial production. The city's leading industries produce textiles, glass, electronics, bricks, beer,... Read more
Italian Campaign Italian Campaign
Italian campaign (see Maps 53–5). This period of the war has never ceased to excite harsh judgements. It was a hurried and improvised attempt to exploit the Axis collapse in the North African campaign by carrying the war to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. The initial decision to... Read more
OVERLORD OVERLORD
OVERLORD as the overall codename for the Allied invasion of occupied north-west Europe (see Maps 81 and 82). The assault phase of OVERLORD, the Normandy landings and associated operations, was codenamed NEPTUNE.The Casablanca conference convened in January 1943 (see SYMBOL), gave the initial... Read more
Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman , 1915-82, Swedish actress, b. Stockholm. Specializing in portrayals of strong, dignified, and sophisticated women, Bergman was acclaimed for her performance in Joan of Lorraine (1946) both on stage and on screen (1949). Her most notable films include Intermezzo (1939), ... Read more
Humphrey DeForest Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart , 1899-1957, American film actor, b. New York City. After a succession of stage roles he achieved note with his portrayal of the gangster Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1934). He was in films after 1930 but it was the re-creation (1936) of that role that brought him... Read more
unconditional surrender unconditional surrender
unconditional surrender, Allied policy first enunciated by Roosevelt at the press conference after the Anglo-American summit meeting at Casablanca in January 1943 (see SYMBOL). The phrase did not appear in the communiqué of the conference, and both Roosevelt and Churchill later tried to claim... Read more
COSSAC COSSAC
COSSAC, acronym derived from the title Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, a position held initially by Lt- General Frederick Morgan. It was also commonly used as the name for the organization headed by Morgan.The decision to appoint a chief of staff was taken at the Casablanca... Read more
French Morocco French Morocco
French Morocco, vast French North African protectorate of 6.25 million inhabitants, including 187,000 Europeans, whose sultan, Mohammed Ben Youssef, declared his support for France when the war started in September 1939. Its French resident-general, General Noguès, opposed the US landings at... Read more
Fes Fes
Fès or Fez , Arab. Fas, city (1994 pop. 772,028), N central Morocco. In a rich agricultural region, it is connected by rail to Casablanca, Tangier, and Algeria. The city is noted for its Muslim art and its handicraft industries. It gave its name to the brimless felt caps that were... Read more

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