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             Merriam Webster's College Dictionary defines international as "relating to, or affecting two or more nations." It defines an organization as being an "administrative and functional structure." Therefore, the term "international organization" can be defined as an administrative structure that affects many nations. The United Nations is an example of an international organization. . The name "United Nations" was first suggested in 1942 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the United States of America at that time (Baehr, 1992).
             The United Nations came into existence through a number of conferences, declarations, and charters. The first step in the establishment of the United Nations was declaration known as the Inter-Allied Declaration. On the twelfth of June, 1941, at Saint James Place in London, representatives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia, and General Charles de Gaulle of France signed the declaration (Riggs, 1994). In it, they stated their intention "to work together with other free people in both war and peace."
             On the fourteenth of August, 1941, shortly after the signing of the Inter-Allied Declaration, President Roosevelt of the USA and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the UK issued a joint declaration. The two leaders vowed to bring and end to what they called "Nazi tyranny" and ensure peace for all nations within their own national boundaries (Riggs, 1994). This famous meeting became known as the Atlantic Charter. Just four and a half months later, on New Year's Day, 1942, twenty-six nations involved in the war against the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) signed the Declaration by United Nations (Riggs, 1994). By doing so, these nations proclaimed their support for the ideas set forth in the Atlantic Charter.
             The first of three major conferences concerning the creation of...

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