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. The joint statement, later dubbed the Atlantic Charter, outlined the aims of the United States and the United Kingdom for the postwar world as follows: no territorial aggrandizement, no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people (self-determination), restoration of self-government to those deprived of it, reduction of trade restrictions, global co-operation to secure better economic and social conditions for all, freedom from fear and want, freedom of the seas, abandonment of the use of force, and disarmament of aggressor nations. The charter's adherents signed the Declaration by United Nations on 1 January 1942, which was the basis for the modern United Nations.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Atlantic Conference
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales in 1941
Churchill joins FDR aboard USS Augusta (9 August 1941)
Printed copy of the Atlantic Charter
Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.
Moluccans protesters against the treatment of Suharto's government to East Timor, in The Hague, Netherlands, 1986.
Lumads in Davao City marching for the right to self-determination as part of the human rights in Philippines in 2008.
Southern Sudanese expressed joy and jubilation on their day of independence, July 9, 2011, from Sudan.
Celebration of the Declaration of Independence of Kosovo in 2008