What was the United Nations created?

The United Nations was chartered as an organization on June 26, 1945 at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco. (Poland later signed the agreement, becoming one of the 51 original members.) The UN was officially created on October 24, 1945 when the agreement was ratified by a majority of the signatory nations. In many member countries, October 24 is celebrated as United Nations Day.

The actual title was coined by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the Declaration by United Nations (Atlantic Charter) of January 1, 1942. Representatives of 26 nations pledged their governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers, upon whom the US had declared war the month before.