The Atlantic Charter: the end of world british century

Atlantic Charter; staeting a world american 

era based on idealism, free trade and progressive capitalism 

On 14th August 1941 US president Franklin D.Rooselvelt and british prime minister Winston Churchill met in US aircrat Augusta in the middle of Atlantic Ocean in order to design new world order after II Word War in the case of allied victory. This new world order was based on five premises:

- No territorial gains for allied countries at the expense of defeated Axis powers.

- No border changes without the will of affected population expressed by referendum

- International relations based on equity and respect between countries as a basis for world peace
  and stability.

-New world economic order based on free trade and public intervention in order to promote human development and social prosperity.

Atlantic Charter represented the end of world british hegemony after 150 years, substituted by world american hegemony characterised by a new vision based on idealism and progressive capitalism. By contrast british world hegemony was based on realism and ortodox capitalism characterised by no public intervention in economy being responsible of misery, social polarisation, depauperation, ignorance, radicalisation, totalitarism and World War I and II in only 20 years. So, Atlantic Charter represented american rectification for a idealistic and progressive new world order able to promote prosperity and peace, approved by Allied Council on 24th September 1941 in London ann subscribed by United States, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Czecoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Greece and USSR.