They also created a Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee and issued, on January 1, 1942, the United Nations Declaration in the spirit of the Atlantic Charter.
The two met for three weeks at the Arcadia Conference in Washington after December 22, 1941.
Soviet planners also benefited from the work of some outstanding aviation designers, whose experimental planes broke world records and whose fighters performed well in the early days of the Spanish war.
The insecure coalition cabinets of the early 1920s, therefore, found themselves with little room to maneuver on the foreign stage.