On this day in history, June 26, 1945, the United Nations was formally established with the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco, California. Article 111 of the charter indicated, "The present ...

In the summer of 1945, leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an international treaty to enshrine the equal rights of all people and maintain peace. This resulting treaty, ...

From the wreckage of war, the United Nations was born in 1945. Leaders came together to prevent another world war, but what ...

In this fascinating inquiry, Muschik explores the role of the United Nations in the great post–World War II transition from a world of empires to a postcolonial system of nation-states. The UN was ...

The concept for the UN was started while WWII still raged on. No one wanted a repeat of the waste and disarray of another global conflict. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Maxim Litvinov ...

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Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source If ever there was a time for an insightful, sharply argued book on the role of the United Nations, now -- ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This Office of War Information film documents the founding United Nations conference of April to June 1945 in which the U.N. Charter was created, ...

The year 1945 left its mark on the 20th century. The liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, the Pacific War, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan: these 12 months changed the world forever. After ...