Cika wannan jumla: Maimakon komawa nan da nan zuwa Faransa, Allies na yamma sun shirya hare-hare a cikin Gidan Yakin Yankin Bahar Rum, inda sojojin Burtaniya suka riga suka tsaya. A tsakiyar shekara ta 1943 an yi nasara a yaƙin da aka yi a Arewacin Afirka. Daga nan sai Allies suka kaddamar da
mamayewar Sicily a watan Yulin 1943 kuma daga baya ya mamaye babban yankin Italiya a watan Satumba na wannan shekarar. A lokacin, sojojin Soviet sun shiga yaƙi kuma sun yi nasara sosai a Yaƙin Stalingrad. An yanke shawarar aiwatar da mamayewa a cikin shekara mai zuwa a taron Trident a Washington a watan Mayu 1943. Tsarin farko ya iyakance da yawan jiragen ruwa na jirgin ruwa, mafi yawansu sun riga sun yi aiki a cikin Rumunan da Pacific. A taron Tehran a watan Nuwamban 1943, Roosevelt da Churchill sun yi wa Stalin alkawarin cewa za su bude dogon lokaci na biyu a watan Mayu 1944.