Choosing a Topic

I was originally interested in studying the transition in U.S. policy from isolationism to the status of a global superpower between 1914 and 1949. Professor Sleeper recommended that I narrow the scope of the paper to a single event that represents the border between U.S. isolationism and it superpower status: the Atlantic Charter. Released as a joint statement between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941, the Charter was a reintroduction of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points and also served as an invitation to the U.S. from Great Britain to assume the mantel of global leadership. It was a dramatic moment that has defined the following decades up until the present day.