UNITED NATIONS
ORGANIZATION
FORMATION
UNO
UNO is the most
important intergovernmental organization
formed on 24
October 1945 to promote international peace & co-operation.
A replacement for the ineffective league of nations, the
organization was created following the second world war to prevent
another such conflict.
At its founding, the UN had 51 member states, now there are 193.
The UN headquarters is situated in Manhattan, New York city
The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary
contributions from its member
states.
Formation- Conferences
• The Atlantic Charter- 1941
• Washington Conference- 1942
• Casablanca Conference-1943
• Moscow Conference – 1943
• Teheran Conference-1943
• Bretton Woods Conference-1944
• Dumbarton Oaks Conference-1944
• Yalta Conference- 1945
• San Francisco Conference- 1945
The Atlantic Charter- 1941
• British PM Churchill and
US president Roosevelt
met in Aug 14,1941 on
battleship in the Atlantic
ocean .
• They made declaration on
the creation of permanent
system of international
security against
aggression.
• It provided the ideological
base for UN charter, 1945
Washington Conference- 1942
Casablanca Conference-1943
• Participants-
Churchill, Roosevelt,
General de Gaulle
(France)- talked over
terms of peace.
• Also discussed their
role in future
international system.
• Casablanca is in
North Africa
Moscow Conference - 1943
• Attended by foreign
ministers of Britain,
America, Russia &
China.
• Major decision- to
establish a new world
organization after war.
• It also decided- the
four powers would
meet at Dumbarton
Oaks to draft the
charter of UN.
Teheran Conference-1943
• Attended by Joseph
Stalin, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and Winston
Churchill from 28
November to 1
December 1943.
• First face to face
Conference by the this 3.
• Determined to establish
a world organization
with membership from
all nations
Bretton Woods Conference-1944
• Attended by 44 Allied Bretton Wood Twins
powers.
• Decided to set up 2
institutions- IBRD, IMF
Dumbarton Oaks Conference-1944
• Foundation of entire
structure of UN was
laid.
• Prepared the first
draft of UN charter.
• It proposed to
convene a
conference at san
Francisco to finalize
and adopt the charter.
Yalta Conference- 1945
The Yalta Conference,
held February 4–11,
1945, was the World War
II meeting of the heads
of government of US,
UK, Soviet Union to
discuss the postwar
reorganization of
Germany and Europe and
the nature UNO
Yalta Conference
• Stalin agreed to Soviet participation in
the United Nations.
• It agreed on a plan whereby all permanent
members of the organization’s Security
Council would hold veto power.
• Soviet Union, US, Britain, France and China-
recognized as ‘big powers’ and permanent
member of Security Council.
• It agreed the system of Trusteeship.
San Francisco Conference- 1945
• The United Nations • .
Conference on
International
Organization
• It was a convention of
delegates from 50
nations
• From 25 April 1945 to
26 June 1945 in San
Francisco, California,
United States of
America
San Francisco Conference
• It decided;
1- to restrict the veto powers of the council
2- to increase the powers of the General
Assembly
3- to give the General Assembly the power
to interpret the United Nations’ charter.
• Conference concluded with the signing of
the Charter of the United Nations by 50
nations on June 26.
Aims and Objectives
It is outlined in the preamble of UN Charter;
1. To save the succeeding generation from
scourge of war.
2. To reaffirm faith in fundamental human
rights and in the equal rights of men and
women.
3. To protect international law and treatise.
4. To promotes social progress and better
standards of life in larger freedom
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