Human beings are only small beings in the universe, we are forced to live on Earth, and most of the things on Earth are created by humans.
Living in this world, things in the world are unpredictable, no one can grasp for sure, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future, what we can be sure of is the past.
But there was one man whose predictions proved his greatness in every way—Roosevelt.
second world war
On September 18, 1931, World War II broke out and did not end until September 2, 1945, which lasted for 14 years.
The Great World Economic Crisis of 1929 intensified Germany's domestic contradictions, and together with the September 18 Incident launched by Japan in 1931, the curtain of World War II was officially brought to an end.
Britain and France declared war on Germany, and World War II broke out, which affected the Axis camp led by the German Third Empire and the Japanese Empire and the Allied camp led by the United States and the Soviet Union, and touched 61 countries and regions involved in the war.
The Second World War was more costly than the First World War.
The First World War was truly tragic, with countless dead and wounded soldiers in various countries, and serious economic and political stagnation in all countries.
Although people learned the lessons of the First World War in World War II, war is war, and it will always do more harm than good to the people.
World War II soldiers lost nearly 90 million people dead and wounded, and the economic damage was as high as $5 trillion, in every way, it was more or less affected, after all, this is not the phenomenon we want to see.
Reflections after the war
In fact, after experiencing the First World War, people realized the drawbacks of war, but at that time, some countries were still too weak and did not have weight in international speech, so they were always ignored.
And the Second World War really hit people, so even if there will be contradictions and frictions in various countries after the end of World War II, the two sides will invariably choose to use the method of consultation and mediation to solve it, and the things that can be solved will be resolutely solved.
In fact, as early as the most intense time of World War II, there were already people thinking about the post-war pattern, he believed that if world peace and avoid war, some authoritative powers must stand up to maintain the international order, and if a collective does not have a person in charge, then the collective will inevitably be chaotic.
In the forties of the twentieth century, it was very advanced to have such an idea, and even we continue to follow this concept in our work.
So who is such a visionary? That's right, he is our President of the United States, Roosevelt.
Roosevelt's idea
Roosevelt, formerly known as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was elected as the 32nd president of the United States in 1933, the four-term president in the history of the United States, he believes that the period was in World War II, and his achievements during Roosevelt's reign were also recognized by the world.
Roosevelt saved the United States from the great economic crisis and greatly increased the employment rate in the United States, which greatly promoted the economic development of the United States.
But today we are not talking about his great achievements, but his theories, his ideas.
The most important thing after the war is to establish a new international order, and after the war, people talk about peaceful development. Thinking based on the strategy of liberal internationalism. Roosevelt put forward the concept of the "four policemen", that is, the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and China needed to step forward and strengthen cooperation to jointly establish and maintain a new international order.
At that time, these four countries were indeed ahead of their strength in all aspects, so let's talk about these four countries in detail.
United States
The United States began to grow stronger after the Revolutionary War in 1783 until it surpassed Britain as the world hegemon in the early twentieth century, and has remained high ever since.
At that time, the United States accounted for more than half of the world's oil and steel production, and its economic strength was very strong, and it had money to buy military equipment, so they also looked very confident on the battlefield.
With oil and steel, the industrialization of the United States naturally went up, and the armaments such as aircraft, tanks, heavy artillery and aircraft carriers were also created, and almost all of them could dominate the battlefield in war.
American soldiers are "professional soldiers", that is, they are paid to fight, and when our country's soldiers can't take the next meal, American soldiers can eat roast duck and drink beer, which shows that the United States is also very strong in terms of funds.
The United States is also very good at using money to "make friends", and if it has money, it will use it to aid other countries, take the anti-fascist countries at that time, Britain and the United States can put aside their prejudices against the Soviet Union and cooperate together against Germany.
The United States gave the Soviet Union a lot of aid, and later the anti-fascist alliance was established, and the United States had no worries at all.
Even the scientific and technological strength of the United States is leveraged, and I know that it is now ranked first.
United Kingdom
As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Britain's hegemonic position was snatched away by the United States, but his strength in all aspects did not fade.
In World War II, Britain was the only superpower on a par with the United States, and as an old European power, it was the first to complete the industrial revolution, and its industrial strength was far greater than that of other countries.
As the largest colonial empire, it can win in two world wars, which shows that Britain is not much worse than the United States at that time.
During World War II, Britain frantically armored aircraft carriers, which were almost invincible.
After the "Tejas aircraft carrier" was armored by the British, after unparalleled design and transformation, it could carry a record 70 aircraft, which also became a model for countries to follow at that time, and was known as the "prototype of modern aircraft carriers".
Even in World War II, Britain's strength was not used to the extreme, and even its national strength was seriously damaged, but it still had a certain influence in the world.
USSR
When one mentions the Soviet Union, that is, Russia in the early period, people will think of its vast territory and strong strength.
The Soviet Union may not be excellent in any aspect, but its comprehensive national strength is strong, and with the continuous advancement of the Soviet Union's industrialization.
In 1940, the Soviet Union's production of tanks reached 2,000, and the number of aircraft was as high as 500, coupled with the rising production of various military equipment with American assistance, even Germany, which was very powerful at that time, could not match the Soviet Union.
Stalin was in power at that time, and his contribution to the Soviet Union was indispensable.
Although the Soviet Union made great sacrifices in World War II, it did not stop moving forward after World War II, continued on the road of industrialization, became one of the world's largest military forces in the future at that time, and completed the atomic bomb test in 1949.
So the USSR at that time was not bad with several other big countries.
China
In China around the forties of the twentieth century, China was still stubbornly resisting in the face of internal and external troubles, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression at home and the World War abroad.
As the first country to fight fascism, it is also the fourth country in the allied army after the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain. There are differences between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but in the face of Japan's invasion, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have to cooperate, and even if there will be some friction, it cannot stop our determination to defend the motherland.
Outside, the Second World War forced us to get involved, and at that time we were almost short of human, material and financial resources, and we also tried to make sacrifices and contributions to resist Japan and fascism.
At that time, China was widely represented as the most influential eastern power in Asia, at least we called the second, and no one could claim the first.
The international situation is unpredictable
In fact, the United States has made a lot of efforts to maintain the international order, and the United States itself wants to establish an international order of liberal internationalist order, but its plans cannot keep up with the changes, and the emergence of the Cold War, coupled with the lack of understanding of this order in other countries, makes it difficult to succeed.
The drastic changes in Eastern Europe have changed the world like a complete one, yes.
"The Big Four"
Roosevelt believed that four nations stood up and each governed a region in order to maintain the international order.
He felt that the United States should be responsible for the maintenance of the Western Hemisphere and the global order, the Soviet Union was responsible for Eastern Europe and Northeast Asia, the United Kingdom was responsible for Western Europe, and China, as the most influential country in the Asian region, was responsible for maintaining the Asian regional order.
Each major power is responsible for its own region, neither a power nor an obligation, but out of the original intention of maintaining world peace and safeguarding world security, the four major powers cooperate, interconnect and balance each other, because only in this way will disputes and wars be reduced.
As far as the United Nations is concerned, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China.
All of these countries fought in the war, all of them were the result of their own struggle, and all of them were countries that made great sacrifices and contributions in World War II, so this system has not been broken since World War II.
Of course, when the United Nations was actually founded in 1945, France, the defeated and surrendered country, was also crammed at the urging of Britain, and he was not one of the "four policemen" Roosevelt considered to be.
For many years, although Japan, India, and Brazil have not been able to become permanent members of the United Nations because of their own economic development, you must know that these positions are not made by talking about it, first ask them how much blood they shed.
Since World War II, although there will be various conflicts and wars around the world, but there has never been a big country, only in the local situation, in this regard the United Nations has indeed played a big role, we advocate peace, any small friction between countries is best solved through consultation and adjustment.
Therefore, as early as the last century, this idea can be put forward and applied in the future world development pattern, which shows that Roosevelt's thinking was quite advanced.
The responsibility of a great power
Of the more than 60 countries affected in World War II, none of them were spared, everyone was deeply hurt by the war, and several of the powerful countries also tried to contain the worst situation.
They originally had super comprehensive national strength, after World War II, no one escaped the injury, but made great sacrifices for this, their sacrifices, their blood were seen by the world, in order to be given a task by the world.
Peace and development have become the main themes of our time. The task of the "four policemen" is to maintain world peace, in order not to let the people of the world go deep into the burning war, so that every baby in the world can be born safely, they have a more important responsibility.
In recent years, the great power of the "four policemen" has also played a full role, and they are all striving to contribute their own strength to world peace.
All of this is inseparable from Roosevelt's forward-thinking ideas, and Roosevelt would be happy to see that his ideas were being implemented today, and that they still existed.
epilogue
Peace is hard to come by, war is in the past, there are still people behind us who are silently paying, we should cherish this stable day, because the world is unpredictable, all we can do is keep moving forward and never look back.