After 1942 , Roosevelt championed General Henri Giraud , more compliant with US interests than de Gaulle , as the leader of the French Resistance . At the Casablanca Conference ( 1943 ) , Roosevelt forced de Gaulle to cooperate with Giraud , but de Gaulle was considered as the undisputed leader of the Resistance by the French people and Giraud was progressively deprived of his political and military roles . The British and Soviet governments urged Roosevelt to recognise de Gaulle 's provisional government , but Roosevelt delayed doing so as long as possible and even recognised the Italian provisional government before the French one . British and Soviet allies were outraged that the US president unilaterally recognised the new government of a former enemy before de Gaulle 's one and both recognised the French government in retaliation , forcing Roosevelt to recognise de Gaulle in late 1944 , but Roosevelt managed to exclude de Gaulle from the Yalta Conference . Roosevelt eventually abandoned his plans to rule France as an occupied territory and to transfer French Indochina to the United Nations
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Charles de Gaulle