International Organisations

E volution of the UN The First World War encouraged the world to invest in an international organisation to deal with conflict. Many believed that such an organisation would help the world to avoid war. As a result, the League of Nations was born. However, despite its initial success, it could not prevent the Second World War ( - ).

Many more people died and were wounded in this war than ever before. The UN was founded as a successor to the League of Nations. It was established in immediately after the S e c o n d Wo r l d Wa r. T h e August: Signing of the Atlantic Charter by the US President Franklin D.

Roosevelt and British PM Winston S. Churchill January: Allied nations fighting against the Axis Powers meet in Washington, D.C., to support the Atlantic Charter and sign the ‘Declaration by United Nations’ December: Tehran Conference Declaration of the Three Powers (US, Britain and Soviet Union) February: Yalta Conference of the ‘Big Three’ (Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin) decides to organise a United Nations conference on the proposed world organisation April-May: The -month long United Nations Conference on International Organisation at San Francisco June : Signing of the UN Charter by nations (Poland signed on October ; so the UN has original founding members) October : the UN was founded (hence October is celebrated as UN Day) October : India joins the UN The US Office of War Information created the above poster during the Second World War as per the Declaration by United Nations of . The poster features the flags of all nations that were part of the Allied Forces. It reflects the belligerent origins of the UN.

FOUNDING OF THE UNITED NATIONS