Atlantic+Charter-1

Atlantic Charter Name- Winston Churchill Occupation - Prime Minister of Great Britain

August 12, 1941 The wind blew over the sea in the Argentina Bay of the coast of Newfoundland. I made my to the US heavy cruiser, USS //Augusta,// from my British battle cruiser //**HMS Prince of Wales.**// I was meeting Mr. Roosevelt, the President of the United States of America, in great secrecy. We, and our staffs, are going to discuss stragey in the war against the Axis Powers. I am truly hoping for a military agreement ("Atlantic 1).

August 14, 1941 Finally, we have agreed on the Atlantic Charter. I did not get the military agreement that I had hoped for this **Atlantic Conference** has certainly been fruitful. I have settled for a joint declaration of war aims. Both of our countries have pledged collective security, disarmament, self-determination, economic coopaeration, and freedom of the seas. President Roosevelt has made it very clear that he could not ask the Congress to declare war, but he would, however, wage war, and do everything in his power to force an incident. We have recorded our **Atlantic Charter**, to be made known in our countries (Danzer et al 554).

Here is what the Charter says, which are the principles that we have agreed on, and are basing our hopes for a better future: 1) Our countries will seek no aggrandisement (the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power of something) or territorial or other. 2) We do not desire to see any territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people involved. 3) We will respect of all peoples to chose the form of government under which they wish to live, and we wish to see sovereign rights and self-government returned to those they have been taken from. 4) We will endeavour, with due respect for our 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. 5) We desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field, with the object of securing for all improved labour standards, economic advancement, and social security. 6) After the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, we 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. 7) Such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance. 8) We believe that all 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, pending the establishment of a wider and permanent system of general security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential. We will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments. (Clancey 1).

The Atlantic Charter that me and Roosevelt has become the basis for a new document, "A Declaration of United Nations". The name United Nations was suggested by Roosevelt in order to express the common purpose of the Allies, the nations that had fought the Axis Powers. This declaration has been signed by 26 nations. A whole four-fifths of the human race. (Danzer et al 554).

Works Cited "ATLANTIC CHARTER." __USS Augusta (CA-31)__. 24 Oct 2007 . Clancey, Patrick. "The Atlantic Charter." __The Atlantic Charter__. February 12, 1999. 24 Oct 2007 . Danzer, Gerald A and J.Jorge Klor de Alva and Krieger Larry S and Wilson Louis E and Woloch Nancy. __The Americans__. McDougal Littell.

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