How the UN started
by: Caty Villanueva & Sofia Tortoriello (M)
In 1919, after World War I, an organization called the League of Nations was conceived for all countries to cooperate together to achieve safety and peace. Some years later, the League of Nations ceased to exist because it failed to prevent World War II.
After World War II, another organization similar to the League of Nations
had to be made for the painfully retrieved peace to be maintained and supervised.
In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco to draw up the
United Nations Charter. The UN Charter are the rules that the UN thinks every
country should be run by, and many countries signed this agreement. The UN
Charter was mainly worked out by the representatives of China, the Soviet
Union, the United Kingdom and the United States in August-October 1944. The
Charter was signed on June 26,1945 by the representatives of 50 countries.
Poland, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it later and became
one of the original 51 member states.
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