US, Meet UN (1945)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It’s December 3rd. On this day in 1945 (technically, December 4th), the United States Senate voted to ratify an agreement to have the US join the United Nations.

Jody and Niki discuss the domestic politics that led to this moment, the lessons from the failed entry of the US into the League of Nations, and whether FDR gets enough credit in this story.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	This day, December 3rd, 1945.
0:15.0	It actually happened on December 4th, but we're doing it on December 3rd, 1945.
0:20.0	The Senate approved the U.S. joining the UN. The United States had entered
0:25.3	World War II four years earlier after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. V. E. Day was
0:30.2	marked in May of 1945. Japan surrendered in September of 1945 and here we are in
0:36.4	December of 1945 with the US deciding to join the United Nations and that
0:41.2	listeners is all you need to know
0:42.5	about the history of World War II
0:43.7	and what it took to get to this moment.
0:45.9	But for real, the United Nations
0:47.1	is of course a product of the end of World War II,
0:49.5	but it also sets up decades and decades of collaboration among the world's countries big and small.
0:54.8	It was in theory the United States tying itself to the rest of the world in peace, not just in conflict.
1:00.7	And here to discuss those very first days of the UN and how the US decided to
1:04.9	enter the organization is as always Nicole Hemmer of Columbia.
1:09.1	Hello Nicky.
1:10.3	Hello Jody.
1:11.4	Did you like my little summary of World War II there? Everything you need to know, right?
1:15.0	I do. I feel like it's all you really need to know. That's why the History Channel just repeats those words on a loop.
1:21.0	Yeah, why watch all those long documentaries when you can just listen to my short intro and
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