The history of the United Nations has its origins in World War II, beginning with the Declaration of St James's Palace. Taking up the Wilsonian mantle in 1944–1945, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt
1943 poster for the Allies of World War II—two years before the founding of the United Nations
Early United Nations official's passport from World War Two – working for UNRRA, issued in 1944 for the Middle East
UN headquarters in New York City
UN building in Vienna
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have se
History of the United Nations
…was the first step that led up to the founding of the United Nations. The Atlantic Conference followed on 9–12 August 1941 at which American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill laid out this vision in a more detailed form in the Atlantic Charter. At the subsequent meeting of the…
Campaign portrait, 1944
A young, unbreeched Roosevelt in 1884, aged 2
Eleanor and Franklin with their first two children, 1908
Roosevelt in 1912