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Atlantic Charter

Declarations and Foundational Rights Instruments

The Atlantic Charter was a statement of postwar aims issued on 14 August 1941 following a meeting between United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard ship in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, from 9 to 12 August 1941. Originally titled the Joint Declaration by the President and the Prime Minister, it set out eight aims including no territorial aggrandizement, respect for self-determination, restoration of self-government to occupied peoples, freer trade, economic cooperation, freedom from fear and want, freedom of the seas and disarmament of aggressor states; nations that adhered to it signed the Declaration by United Nations on 1 January 1942, laying groundwork for the United Nations, and it later influenced the founding of NATO and postwar decolonization.

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Declaration or Manifesto 1
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English 2
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Political Figures
Source The Avalon Project, Yale Law School: Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941
Winston Churchill, Political Figures
Source The Avalon Project, Yale Law School: Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941
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1. Wikipedia: Atlantic Charter
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  • Introduction
    The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, months before the US officially entered the war.
  • In Group: Wartime and Diplomatic Declarations of Policy, Lead paragraph
    The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, months before the US officially entered the war.
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2. The Avalon Project, Yale Law School: Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941
The Avalon Project, Yale Law SchoolOpening paragraph
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deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries
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Wikidata: Atlantic Charter
Wikidata Q181978, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)View the Source
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