The term “United Nations” was first used much earlier than the official 1945 start of the international organization in the 1942 ‘Declaration of the United Nations’, a 26-nation conference (not including France which was under Nazi occupation and thus not legally a government[1]) where governments pledged to continue their fight during WWII against the axis powers.[9] In a series of conferences and forums over the next few years, mainly behind closed doors, the then ‘Big Three’ allied powers of WWII, (the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union)[8] began drafting plans for an international organization to maintain international peace, building off the mistakes of the earlier League of Nations.