The United Nations: Overview

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3 pages in length. World War II proved to be a grim reminder that nations should once again attempt to form an international organization; thus, the United Nations (UN) was born. President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the phrase for a global peacekeeping organization that originally formed in January 1942 and was comprised of twenty-six nations that "pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers" (United Nations, 2000). Bibliography lists 5 sources.