UNITED NATIONS ESTABLISHMENT

Foundation of the UN:

The UN was mainly found considering the failures of its predecessor, the League of Nations to maintain and preserve world peace. Also, it is believed that the League of Nations failed in its very purpose of becoming a global governing organization. Another point of contention that comes in its way is that the League of Nations failed to prevent the occurrence of a Second World War. Some critics are of the view that the main reason for the failure of the League of Nations was the UN capability to dispatch the army of member nations in the form of peacekeeping forces. Some other critics are of the view that peace keeping forces are a method devised by the developed and powerful countries to display their domination of disadvantaged and underdeveloped countries.

Idea of the United Nations:

The word “United Nations” was first coined by the US president, Franklin D Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the time of the Second World War. It was mainly used at that time to denote the allied powers. This term was initially used in the 1942 Declaration. A couple of years prior to its formation, the idea for the new organization in accordance with the League of Nations were adopted in the declarations at conferences held in Tehran, Cairo and Moscow. In the months following August 1944, the representatives of United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the Republic of China, the French Republic and the United States held meetings at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. Further talks led to the draft proposals delineating the intentions of the agencies along with placements for the maintenance of international security and peace.

Formation of the UN: