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Atlantic Charter
On August of 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill met "somewhere at sea." They met aboard the Prince of Wales and the USS Augusta. The Atlantic Conference made a big impact on latter parts of the founding. The charter contained many ideas including "all of the nations of the world must come to the abandonment of the use of force. Since no peace can be maintained if land, sea, or air armaments continue to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside their frontiers…” -
Delcaration of the United Nations
On January 1st 1942 the United States of America, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Union of South Africa, and Yugoslavia signed the Declaration of the United Nations. This act declared the United Nations as an offical orginization. -
Moscow Conference
On October of 1943 representatives from the US, USSR, UK, and China met in Moscow. The Joint Four-Nation Declaration was signed. The Moscow Conference was mostly about WWII action but concerned the future of the UN. They “recognizing the necessity of insuring a rapid an orderly transition from war to peace and of establishing and maintaining international peace and security with the least diversion of the world’s human and diversion of the world’s human and economic resources for armaments." -
Tehran Conference
On November of 1943 Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Tehran, Iran. This was the first meting where the three leaders were all together. The Tehran Conference was focused on WWII. The Declaration of Three Powers, one of the documents published, addressed the possibility of a peaceful surrender of Germany. In some parts of the document they addressed the United Nations. They realized that the organization had to be a success or else further peace would be astronomical. -
Yalta Conference
On February of 1945 the three leaders met again in Yalta. The Yalta Conference focused mostly on postwar conditions. It also laid out the conference in which the UN would be decided upon. “The Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the President of the United States of America have consulted with each other in the common interests of the people of their countries and those of liberated Europe.” -
San Fransisco Conference
During the 9 weeks of the San Francisco Conference the UN Charter was made. It established all of the processes and principles of the UN. They established principles that were based on sovereign equality and peaceful methods. They also finalized the structure of the UN. In the creation of the Charter they split into four different commissions, each of which had a special job.
