America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged Peace

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Название: America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged Peace

Автор: Dan Plesch

Издательство: I.B. Tauris

Год: 2011

Страниц: 272

Формат: PDF

Размер: 16 Mb

Язык: Английский

On January 1, 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a "Declaration" by United Nations with 24 other states. This marked the beginning of the UN in a real and tangible form. Yet today many people have forgotten that the UN was forged in the midst of the confusion and complexity of wartime. How did the armies of the United Nations co-operate in the final years of World War II to contain - and ultimately reverse -- Nazi expansionism? And when and for what purpose did the UN undertake to tackle the international economic and social challenges, not only of warfare but of a post-war world transformed beyond recognition?