ROOSEVELT

• Clear commitment to cooperation as the basis for a lasting post-war settlement  
• Commitment was founded on the certainty that post-war world should strongly reflect American democracy  
• Not only the interests of the USA, but the interests of all states  
• The security that the USSR valued so highly could only be achieved through what emerged at Yalta 
• Highlights fundamental misconception and why Roosevelt was willing to co-operate w/  Stalin  
• Thought him and Stalin shared the same understanding and values for the post-war world 
• Certain he could secure a democratic, non-communist, future for EE  
• That international affairs could be managed through an international peacekeeping organisation 
• Criticised for a degree of naivety and for underestimating the security needs of the USSR (EE)