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The Atlantic Charter
Joint Declaration by the President and the Prime Minister 
August 12, 1941 
The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world. 
FIRST, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other; 
SECOND, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned; 
THIRD, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them; 
FOURTH, they will endeavor, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further the enjoyment by all States, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity; 
FIFTH, they desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing, for all, improved labor standards, economic adjustment and social security; 
SIXTH, after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want; 
SEVENTH, such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance; 
EIGHTH, they believe that all of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to the abandonment of the use of force. Since no future peace can be maintained if land, sea or air armaments continue to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside of their frontiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and permanent system of general security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential. They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt 
Winston S. Churchill

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Atlantic Charter
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The Atlantic Charter was signed by Prime Minister of Britain </wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Britain>, Winston Churchill </wiki/Winston_Churchill> and the President of the United States </wiki/President_of_the_United_States> Franklin Delano Roosevelt </wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt> in August 1941 </wiki/1941> aboard a warship in Placentia Bay </w/wiki.phtml?title=Placentia_Bay&action=edit> off Newfoundland </wiki/Newfoundland>. It established a vision for a post-World War II </wiki/World_War_II> world, despite the fact the United States had yet to enter the War. The participants hoped in vain that the Soviet Union </wiki/Soviet_Union>, since June invaded by her previous ally Nazi-Germany </wiki/Nazi-Germany>, would sign as well. 
In brief, the eight points were: 
1.no territorial gains sought by the United States or the United Kingdom, 
2.territorial adjustments must conform to the people involved, 
3.people have right to choose own government, 
4.trade barriers lowered, 
5.there must be disarmament, 
6.there must be freedom from want and fear, 
7.there must be freedom of the seas, 
8.there must be an association of nations. 
The Axis Powers </wiki/Axis_Powers> interpreted this diplomatic agreement as a potential alliance against them. Adolf Hitler </wiki/Adolf_Hitler> saw it as evidence the UK and USA as colluding in an international Jewish conspiracy and agreed to the implementation of the Final Solution </wiki/Final_Solution> before the conclusion of the war in retaliation. In Japan </wiki/Japan>, this agreement rallied support for the militarists in the government who pushed for a more aggressive approach to UK and USA. 

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THE ATLANTIC CHARTER (1941)
The United States would not enter the war until after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. But by the spring of 1941 Congress had approved the Lend Lease program, and the aid Roosevelt had promised at Charlottesville had begun to flow to Great Britain, where Winston Churchill was now prime minister. In July 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met for the first time in Argentia Bay off Newfoundland, to issue a joint declaration on the purposes of the war against fascism. Just as Wilson's Fourteen Points delineated the first war, so the Atlantic Charter provided the criteria for the second.

Originally the Soviet Union, which had been attacked by Germany the month before, was to sign the charter as well. But the notion of "one world," in which nations abandoned their traditional beliefs in and reliance upon military alliances and spheres of influence, did not appeal to Joseph Stalin, and, in fact, neither was Churchill particularly thrilled. Only Roosevelt, who had been a member of the Wilson administration, truly believed in the possibility of a world governed by democratic processes, with an international organization serving as an arbiter of disputes and protector of the peace.

For further reading: James McGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970); Gaddis Smith, American Diplomacy During the Second World War (1964); and Robert Divine, Roosevelt and World War II (1969).