Wartime President

Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that the U.S. must be a great arsenal for democracy, and his administration sent military supplies to allies such as Great Britain. After the U.S. entered World War II, Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill formed a close alliance, and American, Great Britain, Canada, France, Australia, and other democracies often fought side by side. Joined during the war by the Soviet Union, the Allies defeated the Axis powers. Roosevelt said that those who sought to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of rulers called this a new order, but it was neither new nor order. He also expressed faith that in the middle of the twentieth century men of good will found a way to unite, produce, and fight to destroy ignorance, intolerance, slavery, and war. Roosevelt later joined Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the second Big Three conference in Yalta, where the Allied leaders planned the post-war occupation of Germany, political borders of Eastern Europe, and the United Nations.

Arlington, Virginia · United States