International Legacy

Pederson, William D. (editor) / Stockwell, Mary (author)

A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt ; 672-689

Blackwell Companions to American History

2011-03-25

18 pages

9781444395181 , 9781444330168

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395181.ch34

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

International legacy ‐ President George Herbert Walker Bush, and the new world order , Fall of the Berlin Wall, and Soviet communism ‐ disappearing from the face of the earth, with Americans waking up as if from a dream to a “new world order” , Americans, competing against nations ‐ like the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, and urged to take on Mexico, China, South Korea, India and Brazil , reading Franklin D. Roosevelt's words anew ‐ his speech on the “Four Freedoms,” raising a profound question for contemporary historians , Roosevelt, and the Good Neighbor policy ‐ instituted with Latin America, model for the relationship of the United States with the entire world , true architect of a world “where the rule of law ‐ supplants the rule of the jungle,” where “nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice” and where “the strong respect the rights of the weak” , The Roosevelt who emerged ‐ from the pages of Sherwood's book, being a calm, witty, and intelligent man who saw the current and future world, more clearly than either Churchill or Stalin , new United Nations, established ‐ all countries represented, and where major powers would oversee and enforce international law , “skies of Europe grew darker” ‐ FDR seemed to the poor and unhappy people of the world, a benevolent demigod who in the end would save everyone