The original Atlantic Charter is an agreement that was issued by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941. It was a declaration of a Western commitment to democracy and territorial integrity, months before the US entered World War II.[1] The original charter affirmed that the US and UK sought no territorial gains, that all people had a right to self-determination, territorial adjustments must be in accord with the peoples concerned, trade barriers should be lowered, and there should be a disarmament after the war.