National Security: Unconditional surrender

In the early days of 1943, the Anglo-American allies met on the Northwest African coast at Casablanca, led by Churchill and Roosevelt. The Allies were plotting out their next phase of destroying the Axis powers that began World War II. At a news conference, President Roosevelt announced that the Allies’ objective was “unconditional surrender” by the Axis, notably Germany and Japan. This pronouncement almost caused British Prime Minister Winston Churchill a head jerk because this was a poin