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 at the Arcadia Conference in Washington, D.C., from late December 1941 into January 1942. With the United States now at war, they coordinated Allied strategy for fighting the Axis powers, including the decision to prioritize defeating Germany. Their meeting was broader than deciding only how to respond to Japan’s attack, and it did not set surrender terms.

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