U.N. was the League of Nations, an organization conceived in similar circumstances during the First World War and established in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles "to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security"(Schofield, 11). The International Labor Organization was also created under the Treaty of Versailles as an affiliated agency of the league. The League of Nations ceased its activities after failing to prevent the Second World War (Riggs, 44).
             We will begin to take a look in to how the United Nations is structured, the many functions of the United Nations, and how the United Nations as a whole has been perhaps the most beneficial world organization.
             There are four main purposes of the United Nations (DPI 1956,4). They are:
             1. To maintain international peace and security;
             2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the equal rights and self determination of peoples;
             3. To cooperate in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms
             4. To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in attaining these common ends.
             There are six major components of the United Nations. As with any organization there must various departments, each having very important functions and powers. The six components are: The General Assembly, the Security Council, the Secretariat, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, and the Trusteeship Council.
             The First of those components is the General Assembly in which all U.N. Member States are represented in a kind of parliament of nations, which meets to consider the world's most pressing problems and issues. Each Member State has one vote. Important matters such as international peace and security, admitting new members, the U.N. budget and the budget for peacekeeping, are decided by ...