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{{Short description|1944 wartime meeting of the UK and US governments in Canada}}
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| name         = Second Quebec Conference
| other_titles = Octagon
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| caption      = The Prime Minister's Reception hosted at the [[Château Frontenac]]
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| date         = September 12–16, 1944
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| cities       = [[Quebec City]], Québec
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[[image:Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Alice, and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Quebec, Canada for conference - NARA - 196993.jpg|thumb|[[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone|Princess Alice]], and [[Clementine Churchill]] during the conference.]]
The '''Second Quebec Conference''' (codenamed "OCTAGON") was a high-level military conference held during [[World War II]] by the British and American governments. The conference was held in [[Quebec City]], September 12 &ndash; September 16, 1944, and was the second conference to be held in Quebec, after [[Quebec Conference, 1943|"QUADRANT"]] in August 1943. The chief representatives were [[Winston Churchill]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and the [[Combined Chiefs of Staff]].  Canada's Prime Minister  [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] was the host but did not attend the key meetings.

Agreements were reached on the following topics: Allied occupation zones in defeated Germany, the [[Morgenthau Plan]] to demilitarize Germany, continued U.S. [[Lend-Lease]] aid to Britain, and the role of the [[Royal Navy]] in the war against Japan. Based on the Hyde Park Aide-Mémoire, they made plans to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.

==See also==
* [[First Quebec Conference]]
* [[List of Allied World War II conferences]]

==General references==
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* {{cite Q |Q130353290 |mode=cs1 |url-status=live |access-date=2024-09-24 }}
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==Further reading==
* Bernier, Serge. "Mapping Victory," ''Beaver'' (2008) 88#1 pp 69–72
* John L. Chase [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2126031 "''The Development of the Morgenthau Plan Through the Quebec Conference''"] The [[Journal of Politics]], Vol. 16, No. 2 (May 1954), pp.&nbsp;324–359

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060814004031/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144838.shtml?sectionId=6&articleId=1144838 BBC Factfile: Second Quebec Conference]

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