Why did Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt meet for three weeks in Washington, DC, shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941?

Churchill and Roosevelt met in Washington in December 1941 for the Arcadia Conference. Their main purpose was to coordinate the Allies’ overall strategy for the war, including prioritizing the defeat of Nazi Germany while continuing to fight Japan. They did not meet to set surrender terms or only to decide the immediate US response to Pearl Harbor.

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