Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, who served during most of World War II. He had many presidential qualities, including a sense of urgency, leadership, dedication, shrewdness, and animation. Not only did President Roosevelt help the United States to overcome the Great Depression, but he also helped the nation and other Allied nations, including Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, during World War II. Towards the end of war, he also assisted in forming the United Nations, an international peace organization. Before the United States became involved in fighting, President Roosevelt perceived the Axis powers, mostly Germany, Japan, and Italy, as existing threats to the United States and other Allied nations and felt required to find
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The declaration became known as the Atlantic Charter. In the book Why the Allies Won, Richard Overy labels this as a “public statement of democratic solidarity,” describing that its primary purpose was to improve the world and to consider people’s needs through democracy. It was formed for nations who made changes and decisions in favor of the people, wanted to keep its territories that it had and not expand, and desired to collaborate for world peace. This declaration’s four freedoms of postwar included the freedoms of religion and speech, as well as freedoms from want and fear. At the conference in Argentina, agreements on behalf of the war were made between Roosevelt and Churchill. During this time, Germany was already deep into Russia, and Japan occupied French Indo-China and was ready to occupy Southeast Asia and the southern Pacific. Both leaders agreed upon warning Japan to go no further into the Pacific and working to give supplies to the Soviet Union to push out
The declaration became known as the Atlantic Charter. In the book Why the Allies Won, Richard Overy labels this as a “public statement of democratic solidarity,” describing that its primary purpose was to improve the world and to consider people’s needs through democracy. It was formed for nations who made changes and decisions in favor of the people, wanted to keep its territories that it had and not expand, and desired to collaborate for world peace. This declaration’s four freedoms of postwar included the freedoms of religion and speech, as well as freedoms from want and fear. At the conference in Argentina, agreements on behalf of the war were made between Roosevelt and Churchill. During this time, Germany was already deep into Russia, and Japan occupied French Indo-China and was ready to occupy Southeast Asia and the southern Pacific. Both leaders agreed upon warning Japan to go no further into the Pacific and working to give supplies to the Soviet Union to push out