A desire for peace
In August 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt had signed the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration in which, inspired by Wilsonian principles, the two heads of state provided for the establishment of an "extensive and permanent system of security general”. In February 1945, the Yalta Accords took up this point and announced the convening of “a United Nations conference on world organization (...) on April 25, 1945, in the United States. »
On June 26, 1945, driven by the movement of public opinion shocked by Nazi barbarism and the cruelty of the fighting, delegates from 51 countries approved in San Francisco the Charter of the United Nations, the founding text of the UN, the Organization of the United Nations, whose most important objective would be to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which twice in the space of a human lifetime has inflicted on humanity untold suffering. »