aug 14, 1941 - Atlantic Charter

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FDR and Winston Churchill met in Newfoundland to discuss their aims for WWII and plans for after the war. Both agreed not to seek territorial expansion, to seek the liberalization of international trade, to establish freedom of the seas, international labor, economic, and welfare standards, and to support the restoration of self-governments for all countries that had been occupied during the war and allow all peoples to choose their own form of government.
Both FDR and Churchill hoped it would encourage the American people to join the war. FDR also wanted Churchill to dismantle the UK's discriminatory tariffs against those outside the Empire as compensation for enacting the Lend-Lease program. Churchill wanted greater military aid from the US and for the US to warn Japan against aggression in the Pacific. None of these goals were accomplished.

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