CarlosA

//__**Carlos Arias**__// //**The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in [|World War II] defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by [|Britain] and the [|United States], and later agreed to by all the [|Allies].**// //**Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; free access to raw materials; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations.**//

//**The eight principal points of the Charter were:**//
 * 1) //**no territorial gains were to be sought by the United States or the United Kingdom;**//
 * 2) //**territorial adjustments must be in accord with the wishes of the peoples concerned;**//
 * 3) //**all peoples had a right to self-determination;**//
 * 4) //**trade barriers were to be lowered;**//
 * 5) //**there was to be global economic cooperation and advancement of social welfare;**//
 * 6) //**the participants would work for a world free of want and fear;**//
 * 7) //**the participants would work for freedom of the seas;**//
 * 8) //**there was to be disarmament of aggressor nations, and a postwar common disarmament.**//