I muri i te hinganga o France i roto i te Pipiri 1940, i tu anake Ingarangi me te rangatiratanga ki Germany, tae noa ki te whakaekenga Tiamana o Kariki i te 7 o Paenga-whāwhā 1941. British Pirimia Winston Churchill angitu lobbied peresideni Franklin D. Roosevelt mō te awhina hōia i te United States, engari Roosevelt kihai i rite ki te ui Congress ki te tukua te whenua ki te whawhai. I roto i te August 1941, Churchill me Roosevelt tutaki, ka hainatia te Atlantic Charter, i roto i nei te kīanga e "te tika o te iwi katoa ki te whiriwhiri i te ahua o te kāwanatanga i raro i nei e ora ratou" kia whakaute. i tenei kupu i rite te tikanga e pā ana ki te reira e taea te whakamāramatia e nga whenua Pākehā Pākehā, me Canada, New Zealand, Newfoundland me Awherika ki te Tonga.
Ko te tau 1941