This poster was issued by the federal government on August 14, 1941, four months before the United States entered World War II, to alert the public to the terms of The Atlantic Charter, a statement of common aims between the United States and Great Britain agreed during a series of meetings at sea between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. The charter is seen as a founding document of the United Nations and of the postwar international world order. On January 1, 1942, it was incorporated by reference in the Declaration of United Nations. And a year after the original charter had been signed, Roosevelt stated: “A year ago today the nations resisting a common barbaric foe were units or small groups fighting for their existence. Now these nations and groups of nations in all the continents of the earth have united. They have formed a great union of humanity, dedicated to the realization of that common program of purposes and principles set forth in the Atlantic Charter through world-wide victory over their common enemies. Their faith in life, liberty, independence, and religious freedom, and in the preservation of human rights and justice in their own as well as in other lands, has been given form and substance as the United Nations.”