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The Atlantic charter helped frame the issues and agreements at the Yalta Conference by providing an approach to solving postwar issues and establishing policies. Ultimately, the biggest thing this document stressed was self-determination, as the United States wanted each nation that had just been freed from German rule to be totally self sufficient so no other power could swoop in. Additionally, even though the US wanted each country to decide themselves, democracy was still pushed as the best government and mode for getting things done. Finally, so nothing like WWII happened again, they wanted to establish some form of international organization (UN) that could keep nations in check and from getting out of control like Germany had. The Atlantic Charter was limited as a framing document because it was not a formal treaty so it had limited power.

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