What document or idea lead to the creation of the United Nations?

Question

What document or idea lead to the creation of the United Nations?

Answer 1

The United Nations is the evolution of the failed League of Nations that was created/invented by Wilson.  He started the idea with his "14 Points" speech in which he stated that the international community needed an organization that helped with mediation and would prevent a war such as WWI from occurring ever again.  Obviously that failed, and the UN is the second and more successful attempt after WWII.

Answer 2

"The United Nations was founded as a successor to the League of Nations, which was widely considered to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body, in that it had been unable to prevent World War II. Some argue that the UN's major advantage over the League of Nations is its ability to maintain and deploy its member nations' armed forces as peace keepers. Others see such "peace keeping" as a euphemism for war and domination of weak and poor countries by the wealthy and powerful nations of the world.

The term "United Nations" (which appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) was decided by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during World War II, to refer to the Allies. Its first formal use was in the 1 January 1942 Declaration by the United Nations, which committed the Allies to the principles of the Atlantic Charter and pledged them not to seek a separate peace with the Axis powers. Thereafter, the Allies used the term "United Nations Fighting Forces" to refer to their alliance."

Answer 3

World War 2 was not a good idea neither was the world able to prevent it so it came into existence to ensure that we would never again engage in international armed conflict.

Answer 4

Woodrow Wilson, when he created the League of Nations.  That lead to the United Nations after it failed.

Answer 5

The UN are the successor of the Ligue of the Nations.

Answer 6

Woodrow Wilson created 14 points, the 14th of those was the creation of an international institution that all nations could discuss and participate in, in order for the prevention of war, and to maintain the peace. The League of Nations was created, but becuase of the American legacy of isolationism the US did not get involved. George Washington said if the US got into an entanglement of alliances it would be an evil pursuit ultimatly ending in war. The US congress held a strong majoral vote and shot down US entrance into the League. After, WWII and the failure of the League, the UN was founded, in part to create new states, and protect the peace.