On 14 August 1941, four months before the United States entered the Second World War, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, meeting aboard warships in Placentia Bay off Newfoundland, issued a joint declaration setting out their goals for the post-war world: no territorial gains, self-determination of peoples, access to trade and raw materials, freedom of the seas, economic cooperation and freedom from want and fear. The statement was endorsed by 26 Allied nations in the Declaration by United Nations in January 1942. Colonial peoples saw in it a promise of independence, which Churchill did not intend, and it was a foundation of the United Nations.
Before and after
- 23 July 1941Birth of Sergio Mattarella
- from August 1941 to April 1945Construction of Jasenovac concentration camp
- from 7 August 1941 to 26 September 1941Battle of Kiev
- 7 August 1941Death of Rabindranath Tagore
- 14 August 1941The Atlantic Charter
- 20 August 1941Birth of Slobodan Milošević
- from 25 August 1941 to 17 September 1941Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
- from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944Siege of Leningrad
- 8 September 1941Birth of Bernie Sanders
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