Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, declaring that peoples should be able to choose their form of government and that sovereign rights should be restored. Churchill soon insisted that these principles did not apply to Britain’s empire. Anti-colonial leaders nonetheless used the declaration’s language to challenge imperial rule and demand that wartime sacrifice lead to political freedom.
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What did the Atlantic Charter promise that anticolonial activists could invoke?
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Its stated principles included respect for peoples’ right to choose their government, although Churchill excluded the British Empire from the pledge.
The Atlantic Charter’s self-government language was applied equally to all British colonies.
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Churchill explicitly said it did not apply to Britain’s empire, though anticolonial activists invoked its principles.