Why does the US belong to the UN?

Answer 1

The United Nations was established by the victors of World War II: the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China (under Kuomintang control at the time), and France in order to preserve peace in a post-World War world. The United Nations is divided into six major political organizational bodies: the General Assembly, Security Council, International Court of Justice, Trusteeship Council, Economic and Social Council, and the Secretariat. The UN's first major military action was in 1950 in the wake of the Korean Conflict after North Korean troops, armed with Soviet-made weaponry, invaded the non-communist regime of the South. The United States and the UN then sent mainly volunteers and veterans of the Second World War to fight the war in Korea. The United States General, General Douglas MacArthur, was appointed as supreme commander of the UN forces and helped resist the North Korean attack on the South. After the Northern attack was repelled, MacArthur decided to invade North Korea itself, which the South Korean regime overwhelmingly approved. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was soon taken. However, UN and American forces threatened the Communist Chinese to the North and after MacArthur reached the Yangtze River, Chinese forces began to attack the UN forces. The Chinese then decided to aid the North Koreans in resisting the American/UN attack and focus on attacking the South. MacArthur was soon relieved of his command by President Truman after forcing the Chinese into the conflict. Truman and his military advisers were down to additional conventional weapons and soldiers and the non-conventional atom bombs. However, nuclear bombs would cause the Soviet Union to get more involved and a possible nuclear confrontation would become inevitable. To replace MacArthur was General Ridgeway who effectively used his American/UN forces to repel the Chinese/North Korean assault on the South through a defensive campaign known as Ridgeway's Meat Grinder. The war soon culminated in a stalemate and a cease-fire was agreed to. The UN, a couple years before the start of the Korean Conflict (1950-1953), had to deal with the mess of the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states. The Jewish population that had mainly emigrated from Eastern Europe to Palestine after the First World War and after the terrible Holocaust were in for a surprise as many of Palestine's inhabitants, at the time, were Muslims. After the First World War (1914-1918), Syria was given to France wheras Palestine was made a British mandate. The Arabs that had fought alongside British and French commanders against the Ottoman Turks during the First World War were deeply disappointed that a nation-state for the Arabs was not erected under British or French observation. Rather, the Arabs were somewhat discontent with the European powers as the Balfour Declaration in the years simultaneous to the First World War promised Jews a homeland in Palestine. Thousands of Eastern European and Anglo-Jewish families emigrated to Palestine, upsetting the native population there. During the Nazi German regime from 1933-1945, the National Socialist (Nazi) Party barred German Jews from prospering in business or even running for public office. The German Jews were deported and other things in the beginning of the Nazi regime but soon were exposed to harsher and crueler punishments. Beginning on the eve of the Polish invasion, the Germans began to permanently solve the Jewish problem through a wholly inhumane "Final Solution" that order the mass slaughter of a whole race. Millions of Jews, along with other undeseriables such as Eastern European Slavs, homosexuals, handicaps, and etc. were gruesomely executed. At the end of the war, when Soviet and American troops entered concentration camps, they were all moved by tears of sorrow. The Holocaust is still remembered by Americans and peoples of the Free World as for a reminder to not permit the same mistake again. The British, after the war, were deciding whether or not to liberate Palestine from their control, but were hesistant. However, the UN decided that it would be best for the Palestinian and the Jewish populations would have both two independent states in Palestine but the Palestines did not agree to it. The Zionist Movement in the late 19th Century to the mid-20th Century inspired thousands of Jews to immigrate to Palestine, which angered the surrounding natives there severely. The UN decided to liberate Israel as a new country. On May 11, 1948, the last British forces pulled out of Palestine while armies from the surrounding Arab countries attacked. However, they were all or mostly unorganized and usually inadequately armed or supplied and were less than a match for the superior Israeli forces. In 1949, a cease-fire was agreed to between the Arabs and the Israelis, ending the first of four Arab-Israeli Wars (including the Sinai Campaign).