In 1945, when World War II finally came to an end, people all around the world agreed on one thing: never again did they want to see a war of that magnitude. World War II was a bitter and harsh war in which millions of lives were lost. Those who survived the cruelties of war would never be the same. The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union understood the strong desire of all nations to see world peace. Thus, the United Nations was established. Prime Minister Clemet Attlee described the goal of the United Nations as “…not just the negation of war, but the creation of a world of security and freedom, of a world which is governed by the justice and the moral law. We desire to assert the preminence of right over might and the general good against sectional aims” (quoted in Johnson 7). In short, the main purpose of the UN is maintenance of world peace and the avoidance of war. The idea as a whole sounds wonderful in theory. The problems ari!
se when the UN itself cannot agree on a course of action or when those that the UN attempts to help resist or even despise the assistance. In instances such as the Korean War and the Bosnian Peacekeeping attempts, the United Nations did not help to keep p
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By trying to be the hero, the UN is only prolonging the inevitable. In order to prevent other World Wars, the UN takes the problem of one country and makes it the problem of many nations.
After World War II, Korea became jointly occupied. Of course the Soviet Union would not agree to this so the U. In reaction to South Korea’s election, North Korea held its own election. Instead, the United States and the Soviet Union became divorcing parents disputing over the future of their child. The Serbs then took hundreds of the “peacekeepers” hostage. was willing to let Korea fall under the hands of the other. The Soviet Union wanted to establish a Communist Korea while the U.
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. Those that had been sent to keep peace quickly contributed to the conflict. It became difficult for those involved in the war to get food or medical help (Johnson 39). eace but instead may have contributed to the violence as well as prolonged the conflicts.
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