a seaport in westMorocco, Africa. It was the location of the Casablanca Conference, a historic World War II meeting held in January, 1943, where American, British, and French chiefs of state and military leaders met to discuss the military and political phases of the wareffort, and the occasion on which unconditional surrender was first agreed upon by the Allies as a condition for peace. —SHSBC Binder 32 Approved Glossary