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This 3 page paper examines the U.N. Charter as well as the organization’s history, and argues that it has been successful in furthering world peace. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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it was created, and whether or not it has been effective in furthering world peace. Discussion The United Nations is the successor to the unsuccessful League of Nations, an international
organization created after World War I to avoid another such horrific conflict. The League was the brainchild of, among others, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, whose "Fourteen Points ended with an
ambitious step toward international unity: provision for a general association of the nations, later to be termed the League of Nations" (League of Nations). The League was to be composed
of representatives from the various nations; it was designed, like the U.N., to "provide a forum where international disputes could be settled without resort to violence" (League of Nations). Unfortunately,
Wilson pushed so hard for the League that he wound up compromising with many other leaders as they wrote the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I (League of
Nations). Thus, the League "was established in Europe by ratification of the Treaty of Versailles"; however, Wilson could not persuade the U.S. Congress to approve the nations membership in the
League, and without the American presence, the League foundered (League of Nations). After the horrors of the Second World War, national leaders once again determined that something had to be
done to prevent further conflicts, and thus the United Nations was born. It began in 1945 in San Francisco, when 50 countries met to draw up the UN charter (About
the United Nations/history; hereafter "History"). "Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States
at Dumbarton Oaks, United States in August-October 1944" (History). The 50 countries signed the Charter on June 26, 1945; Poland signed somewhat later and is consindered one of the "orignal
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