Facing major funding cuts from the United States and others, the United Nations has been forced to shed jobs and start ...

World War II, the deadliest and most destructive conflict in human history, reshaped the world as we know it. In this video, ...

The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, marks its 80th ...

The charter was conceived in the early years of World War II and signed on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco. Read more at ...

The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, by nearly 50 nations in California. Signed at the historic Veterans’ ...

The poll showed another gap in views of respondents on whether or not NATO, the European Union and the United Nations have played an important role in preserving peace since the war.

Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.

French World War II reenactors dressed as U.S. infantrymen participate in a ceremony on Utah Beach during commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6 last year in Normandy.

ISAACSON: In the period after World War II, we create a bunch of institutions that are so innovative, the world had never seen it before. But you have the United Nations.

World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...

The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, marks its 80th anniversary this month. There's little to celebrate.

UNITED NATIONS -- Eighty years ago Thursday, 50 countries came together in the ashes of World War II to sign the United Nations' founding charter in order "to save succeeding generations ...