What was the primary goal of the Allied policy of 'Unconditional Surrender' established at the Casablanca Conference?
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Correct answer: To ensure that no negotiated peace would allow the Axis regimes to stay in power
Roosevelt and Churchill announced this policy to reassure Stalin that the Western Allies would not make a separate deal with Hitler. It meant that the Axis nations would have no say in the peace terms.
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