First Washington Conference

The First Washington Conference - a conference held between December 22, 1941 and January 14, 1942, code-named "Arcadia."

The conference took place after the defeat of German troops near Moscow and the entry of the United States and Japan into the war. It was devoted to the development of a joint Anglo-American strategy in the war against the fascist bloc for 1942-1943. In the decisions of the conference, Germany was recognized as the main adversary, and the areas of the Atlantic and Europe - the decisive theaters of war. An agreement was reached on the creation of the supreme military authority of the United States and Great Britain - the Joint Chiefs of Staff with a seat in Washington . The military plans discussed at the conference ruled out the possibility of opening a second front in Europe in 1942. Its participants were guided by a protracted war and did not foresee active military operations at the European Theater in 1942, shifting the entire burden of the war to the Soviet Union.

During the conference, the Declaration of 26 States of 1942, agreed upon with the USSR, was signed, according to which the "united nations" pledged together to fight against the fascist states and not conclude a separate peace or armistice with them.

From the UK participated: Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound , Sir John Greer Dill , Arthur Harris and other officers.