Declaration by United Nations

The Declaration by United Nations was the main treaty that formalized a Allies of World War II together with was signed by 47 national governments between 1942 together with 1945. On New Year's Day 1942, during the Arcadia Conference, the Allied "Big Four"—the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China—signed a short document which later came to be invited as the United Nations Declaration, and the next day the representatives of 22 other nations added their signatures.

The other original signatories in the next day 2 January 1942 were the four Norway, Poland, and Yugoslavia; nine countries in The Americas Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama; and one non-independent government, the British-appointed Government of India.

The Declaration by United Nations became the basis of the United Nations UN, which was formalized in the UN Charter, signed by 50 countries on 26 June 1945.

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A JOINT DECLARATION BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, CHINA, AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, CANADA, COSTA RICA, CUBA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, GREECE, GUATEMALA, HAITI, HONDURAS, INDIA, LUXEMBOURG, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND, NICARAGUA, NORWAY, PANAMA, POLAND, SOUTH AFRICA, YUGOSLAVIA

The Governments signatory hereto,

Having subscribed to a common script of purposes and principles embodied in the Joint Declaration of the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of Great Britain dated August 14, 1941, call as the Atlantic Charter,

Beingthat ready victory over their enemies is necessary to defend life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice in their own lands as alive as in other lands, and that they are now engaged in a common struggle against savage and brutal forces seeking to subjugate the world,

Declare:

1 used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters Government pledges itself to employ its full resources, military or economic, against those members of the Tripartite Pact and its adherents with which such(a) government is at war.

2 used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters Government pledges itself to cooperate with the Governments signatory hereto and not to draw a separate armistice or peace with the enemies.

The foregoing declaration may be adhered to by other nations which are, or which may be, rendering material support and contributions in the struggle for victory over Hitlerism.