Definition von atlantic charter im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
Joint declaration issued on Aug. 14, 1941, during World War II, by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among the statements made in this propaganda manifesto, signed when the U.S. had not yet entered the war, were that neither the U.S. nor Britain sought aggrandizement and that both advocated the restoration of self-government to peoples forcibly deprived of it. The charter was incorporated by reference in the Declaration of the UN (1942)
pact made in 1941 between the United States and Britain that listed the countries' intentions regarding World War II and their goals for postwar Europe (later used as the basis for the UN Charter)