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The United States’ Role in Maintaining International Peace Is the United States supposed to be the mediator of international peace today? This question has been under dispute throughout the history of the United States. The world, in the shape it is currently in, needs a sort of “super-power” to run the world and keep the peace. The responsibility and duty of the United States in maintaining international peace is crucial to the well-being of the world because of the involvement in the United Nations, both physically and monetarily, and the deployment of the United States Armed Forces around the world when necessary. On January 1, 1942, representatives met in Washington D.C. to share ideas of a “new, stronger international peace organization.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt headed this meeting. He suggested the new organization be called “The United Nations” (Brenner 7). British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt met two weeks after the beginning of World War II. There the two discussed ideas about an international peace group. After this meeting, the Atlantic Charter was issued. This document set their aims of “...peace, freedom, collaboration, and security among nations, overse