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President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet on board a ship at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, on Aug. 12, 1941. Among the items on their agenda was aid to the Soviet Union “on a gigantic scale” against its German invaders. A statement was also drafted that said that any further aggression would “produce a situation in which the United States government would be compelled to take counter-measures,” even if it meant “war between the United States and Japan.” The president and the prime minister also made public a document in which their nations declared their intention “to ensure life, liberty, independence, and religious freedom, and to preserve the rights of man and justice.” They also promised to strive for a postwar world free of “aggrandizement, territorial or other,” addressing those nations currently under German, Italian, or Japanese rule, offering hope that the integrity of their sovereign borders would be restored to them. It was called the Atlantic Charter and, when ratified by 26 nations in January 1942, comprised the founding principles of the United Nations.
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