Charter Into Deeds
"To the Best of My Ability"
English - June 17, 2020 15:18 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBHistory Education fdr museum truman ww2 wwii government history politics presidency Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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World War II had been so horrible that the victorious powers decided that nothing like it must ever happen again. President Roosevelt’s dream had been to establish a “United Nations” (UN) organization, in which the peace-loving nations of the world would settle disputes and intervene to punish aggression, but it was Truman who saw it through. On June 26, the UN charter was signed in San Francisco. Would it succeed where previous international organizations had failed and keep the world at peace?