Pashure pokuwa kweFrance muna June 1940, Britain neumambo hwakamira voga vachipesana neGermany, kusvikira kupindirwa kweGermany kweGreece musi wa 7 April 1941. Mutungamiri weBritain Winston Churchill akabudirira kutsigira Mutungamiri Franklin D. Roosevelt kuti awane rubatsiro rwemauto kubva kuUnited States, asi Roosevelt akanga asati agadzirira kukumbira Congress kuti apinze nyika muhondo. Muna August 1941, Churchill naRoosevelt vakasangana ndokusaina Atlantic Charter, iyo yaisanganisira chirevo chokuti "kodzero dzevanhu vose kusarudza chimiro chehurumende yavanogara pasi" dzinofanira kuremekedzwa.
Winston Churchill