The signing of the Atlantic Charter was one of the first steps toward the establishment of the United Nations.
Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) and Franklin Roosevelt (President of the United States) met aboard naval ships off the coast of Newfoundland in August, 1941. In the document that they issued, which became known as the Atlantic Charter, these leaders said that they thought it "right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world."
In 1942, twenty-six Allied nations signed what was then termed a “Declaration by United Nations.” The nations collectively promised their support for the Atlantic Charter’s principles -- things like the right of <span>peoples to choose their own form of government, and international cooperation to work for improvement in life and working conditions for everyone around the world.</span>
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The Russian army refused to engage with Napoleon's Grande Armée of more than 500,000 European troops. They simply retreated into the Russian interior. ... Russia lost more than 200,000. A single battle (the Battle of Borodino) resulted in more than 70,000 casualties in one day
The Whig Party was in favor of the federal government (and preferred they be in control) as opposed to the Democratic Party, favoring the state government. Additionally, the Whig Party tended to be more industry driven; the Democratic Party favored agriculture.
China faced a challenge to feed its people, the growing population seemed to have no way of feeding, so China embarked on a policy of achieving self-sufficiency in food, creating an economic reform program that increased productivity in the agricultural sector, surprising many observers when it became a net exporter of agricultural products in 2002.
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In the 19th-century United States, racism was rampant. Chinese immigrants were openly mocked, often in unfavorable newspaper caricatures. Germans were stereotyped as loitering in beer halls. African-Americans were portrayed in demeaning advertisements. And Irish people — who were not considered "white" by the existing majority at the time — were mistreated, too.
More than 1.5 million people left Ireland for the United States between 1845 and 1855, the survivors of a potato famine that had wiped out more than 1 million people in their homeland. They arrived poor, hungry and sick, and then crowded into cramped tenements in Boston, New York and other Northeastern cities to start anew under difficult conditions.
The struggles of Irish immigrants were compounded by the poor treatment they received from the white, primarily Anglo-Saxon and Protestant establishment. America's existing unskilled workers worried they would be replaced by immigrants willing to work for less than the going rate. And business owners worried that Irish immigrants and African-Americans would band together to demand increased wages.
