the United Nations was the Moscow Conference. Commencing on October 30, 1943, foreign ministers from the Soviet Union, UK, and USA signed a declaration stating that "they recognize the necessity of establishing at the earliest practicable date a general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open membership by all such States, both large and small, for the maintenance of international peace." (Handbook)
             The second conference was the Teheran Conference held on December 1, 1943. Attending the conference was President Roosevelt of the USA, Prime Minister Churchill of the UK, and Premier Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union. At the Teheran Conference, these three world leaders stated: "we recognize fully the supreme responsibility resting upon us and all the United Nations to make a peace which will command the goodwill of the overwhelming masses of the peoples of the world and banish the scourge and terror (of World War II) for many generations." (Handbook)
             The third and final conference, officially known as the United Nations Conference on International Organization, was held in San Francisco, California. In total, fifty nations attended the conference, which commenced on the twenty-fifth of April 1945. On June 25, after careful deliberations, delegates from each state met and the San Francisco Opera House, where they unanimously adopted what was known as the Charter of the United Nations. Four months later, on October 24, all permanent members of the Security Council
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