Modern Era · North America · Politics

1945

UN Charter signed in San Francisco

June 26, 1945

In the War Memorial Opera House, delegates from fifty nations signed a charter for a new organization designed to prevent the kind of war that had just killed sixty million people. It had a Security Council with five great-power vetoes and a General Assembly for the rest. It would be stronger than the League and never quite strong enough.

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Also in 1945 (12 other events on record)

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Hiroshima bombed · East Asia · War
V-E Day · Europe · War
Hitler kills himself in the bunker · Europe · War
Nagasaki bombed · East Asia · War

Before and after in North America

Before: July 1, 1944: Bretton Woods Conference begins
After: February 14, 1946: ENIAC unveiled at Penn

Before and after in Politics

Before: July 1, 1944: Bretton Woods Conference begins
After: March 5, 1946: Iron Curtain speech

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