United Nations
Victoria Fern Mitchell
July 17, 2014
The United Nations
It 's history, functions, successes, and failures
The United Nations is well known as an organization which functions primarily for the promotion of peace and cooperation on an international level. Originating in 1919 as a group known as the League of Nations, the UN has evolved into what it is today, a proactive coalition of one hundred and ninety-three nations existing to make the enforcement of international law, security, economic development, social progress, and human rights easier for countries world-wide. Since its first days, the UN has proven its abilities to be effectual many times over, but it has also showcased the depravity of human nature and the flaws of its system.
The principles of our present-day United Nation began post-WWI when President Woodrow Wilson first proposed a forum that would manifest his Fourteen Points in attaining a stable peace corps, preventing further global wars and strife ("The League"). Wilson said that the times called for for a “general association of nations…formed on the basis of covenants designed to create mutual guarantees of the political independence and territorial integrity of States, large and small equally" ("The League"). His ideas were very appealing to both his own fellow Americans and the war-torn citizens of Europe and the League was established under the Treaty of Versailles. However, the difficulties in forming a strong organization for global equity were more prominent than the zealous attitude of those who desired it; in the end, the League was never able to reach any substantial international standing or execute Wilson 's humanitarian dream for a truly effective peace corps. Later, the League of Nations was reborn as the United Nations when President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill coined the term in the Declaration of the United Nations which was signed by 26 countries on the first day of 1942, signifying that the signing
July 17, 2014
The United Nations
It 's history, functions, successes, and failures
The United Nations is well known as an organization which functions primarily for the promotion of peace and cooperation on an international level. Originating in 1919 as a group known as the League of Nations, the UN has evolved into what it is today, a proactive coalition of one hundred and ninety-three nations existing to make the enforcement of international law, security, economic development, social progress, and human rights easier for countries world-wide. Since its first days, the UN has proven its abilities to be effectual many times over, but it has also showcased the depravity of human nature and the flaws of its system.
The principles of our present-day United Nation began post-WWI when President Woodrow Wilson first proposed a forum that would manifest his Fourteen Points in attaining a stable peace corps, preventing further global wars and strife ("The League"). Wilson said that the times called for for a “general association of nations…formed on the basis of covenants designed to create mutual guarantees of the political independence and territorial integrity of States, large and small equally" ("The League"). His ideas were very appealing to both his own fellow Americans and the war-torn citizens of Europe and the League was established under the Treaty of Versailles. However, the difficulties in forming a strong organization for global equity were more prominent than the zealous attitude of those who desired it; in the end, the League was never able to reach any substantial international standing or execute Wilson 's humanitarian dream for a truly effective peace corps. Later, the League of Nations was reborn as the United Nations when President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill coined the term in the Declaration of the United Nations which was signed by 26 countries on the first day of 1942, signifying that the signing
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