On 26 June 1945, official representatives of 50 countries, meeting in San Francisco, United States, signed the Charter of the United Nations, forming the world’s premier international organization, ...

After World War I, the Covenant of the League of Nations created what people today think of as multilateralism. However, the ultimate lack of American ratification left the League of Nations without ...

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, ...

Eighty years ago on October 24, 1945, the United Nations formally came into existence following the ratification of its Charter by the five members of the Security Council namely, the United States of ...