Time and Tide Map of the Atlantic Charter, 1942 (colour litho)

In August 1941, four months before Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met secretly aboard ship in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The most important result of the meeting was an agreement on the joint goals of Great Britain and the United States for the post-war world, promptly named (by the press) "The Atlantic Charter." With its promise of self-determination and "freedom from fear and want," the Charter "served as a propaganda weapon against the Axis," broadcasted widely by the Voice of America, and eventually the basis for the United Nations declaration. Brewer 2009, 95-96, 102; Patterson 2015, 189-192). Equally significant, because of "its demonstration of Anglo-American unity against totalitarianism, the declaration of the Atlantic Charter served to boost British morale during one of the most difficult phases of the war." Ellis 2009, 48. The continents abound with symbols of agriculture and industrial raw materials.