5705 AM · 1945 CE · world history
The Founding of the United Nations
Fifty-one states sign a charter meant to prevent another world war.
In San Francisco fifty-one states adopt the UN Charter, a second attempt after the failed League of Nations: a Security Council with five vetoes, a General Assembly of one vote per state, and in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its 1947 partition resolution opened the way to the State of Israel.
Sources
Documents of the period
- documents and chronicles of the period — the UN Charter (San Francisco, 1945) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Scholarship
- studies in European history — Resolution 181 (1947) on the partition of Palestine — the road to the founding of Israel
Basis: documents and evidence.