San Francisco Conference

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The San Francisco Conference was the 1945 international gathering where delegates from 50 nations drafted and signed the United Nations Charter, leading to the creation of the UN.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf founding conference of the United Nations
international diplomatic conference
alsoKnownAs United Nations Conference on International Organization
cameIntoForceRelatedDocument United Nations Charter
context final phase of World War II
dateOfDocumentSigning 1945-06-26
endDate 1945-06-26
establishedBody International Court of Justice
United Nations Economic and Social Council
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Secretariat
United Nations Security Council
historicalSignificance laid the constitutional framework for postwar international order
marked the formal creation of the United Nations system
hostCityMayor Roger D. Lapham
hostCountryHeadOfState Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
keyParticipant China
France
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
United States
keyParticipantRole founding members of the United Nations
languageOfProceedings Chinese
English
French
Russian
Spanish
legalStatusOfOutcome multilateral treaty
location California
San Francisco
United States
mainOutcome United Nations Charter
numberOfParticipatingStates 50
organizedBy Allied powers of World War II
precededBy Dumbarton Oaks Conference
Yalta Conference
purpose to draft the Charter of the United Nations
to establish a new international organization for collective security
to promote international cooperation and peace after World War II
relatedDocumentEntryIntoForceDate 1945-10-24
resultedIn creation of the United Nations
signedDocument Charter of the United Nations
startDate 1945-04-25
subjectMatter economic and social cooperation
human rights
international security
peacekeeping

Referenced by (25)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Article 39 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
Article 47 of the United Nations Charter
Article 50 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
Article 51 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco")
adoptedAt
Article 41 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
Article 42 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
Article 45 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
adoptedBy
Article 46 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
Article 48 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
Article 49 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
draftedAt
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. ("San Francisco Conference (United Nations Conference on International Organization)")
Trygve Lie
participantIn
John Foster Dulles ("San Francisco Conference (1945)")
Ralph Bunche ("San Francisco Conference establishing the United Nations")
participatedIn
San Francisco Conference ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
alsoKnownAs
Flag of the United Nations ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
designedFor
Article 47 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
draftedBy
Article 45 of the United Nations Charter ("San Francisco Conference, 1945")
draftedIn
Article 44 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
enactedBy
United Nations Trusteeship Council ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
establishedBy
Dumbarton Oaks Conference ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
followedBy
UN ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
foundingConference
Article 43 of the United Nations Charter ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
negotiatedAt
Dumbarton Oaks Conference
relatedTo
Charter of the United Nations ("United Nations Conference on International Organization")
signedAtConference

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