What did the United Nations do in response to WWII?

The United Nations itself was a response to World War II. The experience with the League of Nations after World War I was unhappy. The League of Nations was simultaneously too ambitious and not ambitious enough. read more

The United Nations didn’t do anything in response to WW2 because it didn’t even exist at that point. In it’s place was the League of Nations, which proved to be incapable of keeping world peace and preventing WW2. read more

Throughout World War II, the term 'United Nations' was often used to refer to the Allies. One famous poster from the war reads, 'The united nations fight for freedom.' As the war progressed, however, President Franklin Roosevelt and others increasingly began to conceive of the United Nations as a very specific international peacekeeping organization. read more

The growing Second World War became the real impetus for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union to begin formulating the original U.N. Declaration, signed by 26 nations in January 1942, as a formal act of opposition to Germany, Italy, and Japan, the Axis Powers. read more