Atlantic Charter Influence

The United States’ rise as a global power lead to the liquidation of the African British Empire. As Nazi Germany began to take expand in Asia, Africa, and Europe, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to declare their war aims. The Atlantic Charter ended being more or less a press release for public relations versus actual policy for the public. When working at the works from Wm. Roger Louis and Ronald Robinson one can see how the Atlantic Charter grew and was enacted. In the second part of Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire, 1941-1945, Wm. Roger Louis explores the Atlantic Charter and the constant debate of what the Atlantic Charter should include, the terminology used, and the to whom and where the Atlantic Charter should have influence over. …show more content…
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Roosevelt felt that the entire world should have the opportunity to declare independence from the empirical powers as well as be able to declare the type of government that best suited the nation. Nations like India would be able to gain their independence in the near future, whereas, many of the nations of Africa would need assistance prior to independence. That assistance would allow the empirical nations to continue to rule and have influence through a Trusteeship, a modification of the mandate system, as a “parent state.” The role of the “parent state” would be to promote better education, welfare, build a European style government, and state a targeted date of independence. Many of the nations under a trusteeship, would remain under the former empirical power, that “watched over them” as mandates as well as