Write short note: Atlantic Charter

Answer: Atlantic Charter

• The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration signed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in August 1941, aboard a warship in the Atlantic Ocean.
• It declared that the two countries sought no territorial gains and that every nation had the right to choose its own form of government.
• It supported economic co-operation, freedom from fear and want, freedom of the seas and disarmament.
• Its principles formed the basis of the United Nations Organisation established in 1945.