This group gathers the declarations and manifestos of the world wars era, 1914 to 1945. These are the declarations, proclamations, manifestos and political essays by which leaders and movements stated their aims to the public. A document belongs here when its cited article gives a date inside this span for the document's own signing, adoption, issue or composition. It excludes documents dated earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring period groups of the same kind. The years 1914 to 1945 cover the First World War, the interwar settlement, the Second World War and the first plans for the world that followed.
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Wikipedia: Balfour Declaration
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The Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917) was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority among an overwhelming Arab majority, mostly Muslim but also including Christians.
Wikipedia: Fourteen Points
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The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
Potsdam Declaration (Wikipedia)
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On July 26, 1945, United States president Harry S.
Atlantic Charter, Wikipedia
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The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, months before the US officially entered the war.
Declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Wikipedia)
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The Declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Tuyên ngôn độc lập Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) was written by Hồ Chí Minh and announced in public at the Ba Đình square in Hanoi on 2 September 1945.
1943 Cairo Declaration (Wikipedia)
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The Cairo Declaration (Chinese: 開羅宣言) was the outcome of the Cairo Conference in Cairo, Egypt, on 27 November 1943 of the 3 Allied powers engaged in the Second World war against the "Axis" of Germany and Japan, represented by President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China.
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