De Gaulle is now known as the founding father of France, the man who saved France. Because during World War II, in the case of the fall of France, it was de Gaulle who insisted on the war of resistance and eventually liberated France, and also made France a world power again, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. So the French respect de Gaulle very much, but in fact, the Americans don't like it, especially President Roosevelt, why don't they want de Gaulle to lead France? As you might not expect, there is only one root cause.
Roosevelt had never been cold to de Gaulle, nor was he welcome to see him, and even humiliated de Gaulle many times. At the time of the founding of the United Nations, france was deliberately not allowed to become a permanent member, and in the end it was Britain's insistence that France existed. It can be seen from the meeting of the Big Three at that time that there was no Charles de Gaulle at all.
Roosevelt, on the other hand, was very kind and intimate to the French Vichy government. Even after the war, the United States approached Vichy several times in the hope that he would lead France. For the United States, it would prefer Vichy to the presidency than de Gaulle. This is actually difficult to understand now, because de Gaulle, both in ability and perseverance, is much better than the capitulating Vichy, but why does the United States not want de Gaulle to lead France?
In fact, there is only one fundamental reason, that is, "nationalists, not easy to control." The United States has a characteristic that the supporting government likes to support the capitulationists, because the capitulationists are easy to control and want any benefits. Nationalists are disliked because nationalists are often diehards and oppose foreign countries.
And de Gaulle was a nationalist, and he had always wanted to make France rise and become strong, which was unacceptable to the United States. Because the Americans knew that de Gaulle's leadership of France would harm American interests and prevent the United States from controlling Europe. So when NATO was established, it deliberately lowered France's status.
De Gaulle, who was bent on becoming a big country, obviously could not accept it, and in the end, de Gaulle's behavior was actually exactly the same as what the United States thought. De Gaulle not only drove out the US military garrison, but also withdrew from NATO, and even took the lead in forming the European Union to counter the US control of Europe, and gradually practiced France's path to great power.
France can have today's strength, inseparable from De Gaulle, Roosevelt and the United States naturally did not like. Therefore, the least favorite politicians in the West are the backbone of this country, and those capitulationists must be national sinners, which is clear from the example of France. What do you readers think about this? Welcome to leave a message and discuss with the editor!
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Reference: Modern and Contemporary World History.