Visions of a new world order: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the origins of the United Nations Organization, 1913-1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt made the creation of the United Nations Organization a central goal of his World War II diplomacy in order to establish a new postwar world order. Roosevelt believed that postwar world security could not be attained unless there were an effective collective security organization in which the United States played a leading role. He also wanted the United Nations Organization to remedy certain conditions which, if left unaddressed, he believed would lead to postwar conflict.; FDR was convinced that there would be postwar conflict between the Soviet Union and the western powers if the Soviet Union were allowed to remain a pariah nation on the margins of the world community. Therefore he wanted to incorporate the Soviet Union into international society as a recognized and respected great power by making it one of the United Nations Organization's permanent Security Council members, along with the United States, Great Britain, and China, charged with overseeing postwar security matters.; FDR also believed that the age of imperialism was drawing to an end, and that the postwar world would be bedeviled by widespread rebellions against colonial rule unless something was done to satisfy colonial demands for independence. Therefore, he wanted the United Nations Organization to establish a trusteeship system that would guide colonies toward democratic independence.; The United Nations Organization would not fulfill Roosevelt's vision for a new world order. The United Nations Organization did not become the central institution for postwar security matters; the United States and the Soviet Union became adversaries in a Cold War which split the globe into two rival camps; and colonialism's demise after World War II would have little to do with the United Nations Organization.