The United Nations for a better world; a forty-year chronology in pictures 1945-1985.

From: UN Chronicle | Date: April 1, 1985 | Copyright information

1945

In the four decades since the Charter of the United Nations was signed in San Francisco on 26 June 1945, the world has changed in a phenomenal way and so has the basic thrust and emphasis of United Nations activity.

As the peoples of Earth entered the atomic age, the main focus of the new-born Organization was "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". Forty years later, the United Nations continues its efforts to prevent and contain w...

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