Dumbarton Oaks Conference
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The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, or, more formally, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization, was an international conference at which proposals for the establishmen
Participants of the conference
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., was the location of the conference.
Four Policemen
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The "Four Policemen" was a postwar council with the Big Four that U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed as a guarantor of world peace. Their members were called the Four Powers during World Wa
Dumbarton Oaks Conference
…of a "general international organization", which was to become the United Nations, were formulated and negotiated. The conference was led by the Four Policemen – the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China. It was held at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, D.C., from August 21…
The Allied leaders of the European theatre: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Chiang, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet at the Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II.
1943 sketch by Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United Nations' original three branches. The branch on the right represents the Four Policemen.