Roosevelt and Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, invoking peoples’ right to choose their government. Churchill insisted it did not apply to Britain’s empire, while anticolonial leaders read its language as a promise they could claim. The gap between universal rhetoric and imperial practice became a key postwar political fault line.
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What contradiction did anticolonial activists identify in the Atlantic Charter?
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The Charter’s self-determination language was contested because Churchill maintained it did not apply to Britain’s empire.
Churchill said the Atlantic Charter’s self-determination language applied to Britain’s colonies.
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Churchill maintained that the Charter did not apply to Britain’s empire.