 The United Nations, first created in
San Francisco, now meets in New York, NY.
It is composed of a General Assembly
and a Security Council of fifteen,
permanently including the Big Five.
As soon as General Eisenhower (who would later become President of the US) and his troops witnessed the horrors of the first few liberated extermination camps, Eisenhower's first reaction was to call in the press and give the Holocaust immediate and extensive media coverage. This effectively informed people around the globe about the atrocities of genocide, and sparked an international movement to prevent such an event from occurring again. For this cause, and in the interests of global peace in general, the Allies created the United Nations (UN). An organization based on the former League of Nations, the UN was different from its predecessor in that it had a special group of countries called the Big Five who would each have full veto power, so that nothing like the Hoare-Laval disaster would occur again. The Big Five and ten other countries that switch regularly make up the Security Council, which gives the final word on decisions made by the UN. The primary purpose of the UN was, and still is, to give humanitarian aid to those countries that required it and to prevent another World War. |
