Creating the United Nations
Warfare
History Hit
4.5 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The search for Peace on Earth has spanned centuries, and involved the creation and dissolution of numerous treaties and organisations. So how does the United Nations fit into this story? Why was it created, and has it been successful in its task? Ian Johnson is a historian of war, technology and diplomacy at the University of Notre Dame. He returns to the podcast for a third time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone this is the history hit warfare podcast and I'm your host James Rogers. |
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| 0:49.5 | sitting there and watching Steve McQueen on his motor bike through to episodes on |
| 0:54.5 | peace on earth. That is this episode seems fitting given the season. We have |
| 1:00.1 | Professor Ian Johnson an old friend of the podcast, my old friend, back to tell us about the United |
| 1:06.1 | Nations. Why it was formed out of the grand alliance, out of the brutal cauldron of upheaval of the Second World War. |
| 1:14.3 | He talks to us about how public opinion showed that people were willing to have part of their |
| 1:19.1 | national militaries put under the control of the UN |
| 1:22.1 | to ensure a peaceful period, to ensure that the |
| 1:25.1 | organization had the power it needed to instill peace around the world if any |
| 1:29.7 | little Hitler's should pop up and this was learning lessons of course from the failures and |
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