50 nations sign the UN Charter
06/26/1945 AD founded
The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future wars, succeeding the rather ineffective League of Nations.
On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations.
Pursuant to the Charter, the organization's objectives include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development, and upholding international law.
t its founding, the UN had 51 member states:
Security Council
- China (then the Republic of China)
- France (then the Provisional Government)
- Russia (then the Soviet Union)
- United Kingdom
- United States (these first five forming the ),
General Members
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Brazil (then the Vargas Era Brazil)
- Belarus (then the Byelorussian SSR)
- Canada
- Chile (then the 1925–73 Presidential Republic)
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba (then the 1902–59 Republic)
- Czechoslovakia (then the Third Republic)
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt (then the Kingdom of Egypt)
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia (then the Ethiopian Empire)
- Greece (then the Glücksburg Kingdom)
- Guatemala
- Haiti (then the 1859–1957 Republic)
- Honduras
- India (then the British Raj)
- Iran (then the Pahlavi dynasty)
- Iraq (then the Kingdom of Iraq)
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand (then the Dominion of New Zealand)
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines (then the Commonwealth)
- Poland (then the Provisional Government of National Unity)
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa (then the Union of South Africa)
- Syria (then the Mandatory Republic)
- Turkey
- Ukraine (then the Ukrainian SSR)
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Yugoslavia (then the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia)
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