The Big Three

Examples of The Big Three in the following topics:

• War Aims and Strategy

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, known as the "Big Three," developed a plan of action for Allies in a series of informal meetings and official conferences.
  • The "Big Three" (Franklin D.
  • A separate protocol signed at the conference pledged the Big Three to recognize Iran's independence.
  • The Big Three met again major war conference in Yalta (sometimes called the Crimea Conference), held from February 4 to 11, 1945.
  • From July 17 to August 2, 1945, the three major Allied powers met in Potsdam, occupied Germany.

• The Tehran Meeting

  • The Tehran Conference was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
  • A separate protocol signed at the conference pledged the Big Three's recognition of Iran's independence.
  • The "Big Three" spent days wrangling about when Operation Overlord should take place, who should command it, and where operations should begin.
  • The declaration issued by the three leaders on conclusion of the conference on December 1, 1943, recorded the following military conclusions:
  • Summarize what was discussed between the "Big Three" at the Tehran Conference in 1943.

• Yalta and the Postwar World

  • It was one of the three major wartime meetings of Allies Powers, together with the Tehran Conference in 1943 and the Potsdam Conference in July/August 1945.
  • Roosevelt wanted the USSR to enter the Pacific War with the Allies.
  • Stalin agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the Pacific War three months after the defeat of Germany.
  • All three leaders ratified previous agreements about the post-war occupation zones for Germany: there were to be three zones of occupation, one zone for each of the three dominant nations (France would later get a portion when the USA and Great Britain divided up parts of their zones and gave them to France).
  • Also, the "Big Three" agreed that all original governments would be restored to the invaded countries (with the exception of France, Romania, and Bulgaria; the Polish government-in-exile was also excluded by Stalin) and that all civilians would be repatriated.

• Escaping Hard Times

  • One of the exceptions was Duke Ellington and his big band, who played several types of music from Blues to Gospel to Jazz and more.
  • By the 1930s, all of America's theaters were owned by the Big Five studios: MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO, Warner Bros., and 2oth Century Fox.
  • The Marx Brothers also provided popular big screen laughs with Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck Soup (1933).
  • Beloved Disney films of the 1930s included The Three Little Pigs (1933) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
  • Duke Ellington was one of the most popular Jazz musicians and Big Band leaders who became well known in the 1920s and remained popular in the 1930s.

• The Big Stick

  • The term "Big Stick" diplomacy refers to Roosevelt's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, coined by the famous phrase: "speak softly and carry a big stick."
  • Roosevelt attributed the term to a West African proverb, "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far," but the claim that it originated in West Africa has been disputed.
  • Roosevelt tied his policy to the Monroe Doctrine, and it was also consistent with his foreign policy included in his Big Stick Diplomacy.
  • A map of Middle America, showing the places affected by Roosevelt's Big Stick diplomacy.
  • Describe Roosevelt's foreign policy and the meaning of the proverb "speak softly and carry a big stick"

• Vaudeville

  • Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the United States and Canada from the 1830s until the early 1930s.
  • The three most common levels of production were the "small time" (lower-paying contracts for more frequent performances in rougher, often converted theatres), the "medium time" (moderate wages for two performances each day in purpose-built theatres), and the "big time" (possible remuneration of several thousand dollars per week in large, urban theatres largely patronized by the middle and upper-middle classes).
  • As performers rose in renown and established regional and national followings, they worked their way into the less arduous working conditions and better pay of the "big time".
  • The capitol of the "big time" was New York City's Palace Theatre (or just "The Palace" in vaudevillian slang).
  • The line is blurred, however, by the number of vaudeville entrepreneurs who made more or less successful forays into the movie business.

• Populism and Religion

  • He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908).
  • Because of his faith in the wisdom of the common people, he was called "The Great Commoner. "
  • In his three presidential bids, he promoted Free Silver in 1896, anti-imperialism in 1900, and trust-busting in 1908, calling on Democrats to fight the trusts (big corporations) and big banks, and embrace anti-elitist ideals of republicanism.
  • Five days after the end of the case, he died in his sleep.
  • In 1905, Bryan noted that "the Darwinian theory represents man reaching his present perfection by the operation of the law of hate, the merciless law by which the strong crowd out and kill off the weak.

• Progressives and the Working Class

  • Three practices were developed to accomplish this: the referendum, the initiative, and the recall.
  • The initiative permitted voters to petition and force the legislature to vote on a certain bill.
  • Finally, the recall provided the opportunity to remove elected officials from office before the end of their terms.
  • The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago in 1905, at a convention of anarchist and socialist union members who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
  • They promoted the idea of "One Big Union" in the hopes that one large, centralized body would be better equipped to deal with similarly large capitalist enterprises.

• Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election

  • It was also the first election in which one of the candidates was born in the 20th century.
  • The Republicans campaigned against the New Deal, seeking a smaller government and less-regulated economy as the end of the war seemed in sight.
  • The speech was met with loud laughter and applause from the labor leaders.
  • In response, Dewey gave a blistering partisan speech in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma a few days later on national radio, in which he accused Roosevelt of being "indispensable" to corrupt big-city Democratic organizations and American Communists; he also referred to members of FDR's cabinet as a "motley crew. " However, American battlefield successes in Europe and the Pacific during the campaign, such as the liberation of Paris in August 1944 and the successful Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines in October 1944, made Roosevelt unbeatable.
  • Dewey did better against Roosevelt than any of FDR's previous three Republican opponents, and he did have the personal satisfaction of beating Roosevelt in FDR's hometown of Hyde Park, New York, and of winning Vice President-elect Truman's hometown of Independence, Missouri.

• The Defeat of Japan

  • While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan's leaders at the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War (the "Big Six") were privately making entreaties to the neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms favorable to the Japanese.
  • The Soviets, meanwhile, were preparing to attack the Japanese, in fulfillment of their promises to the United States and the United Kingdom made at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences.
  • The combined shock of these events caused Emperor Hirohito to intervene and order the Big Six to accept the terms for ending the war that the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration.
  • Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
  • The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S.