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Fun time to nerd out! The name of the United Nations is an artifact of WWII - that was the name chosen by the alliance on 1 January 1942, just after the US ent
by azernik 7y ago
Fun time to nerd out!
The name of the United Nations is an artifact of WWII - that was the name chosen by the alliance on 1 January 1942, just after the US entered the war, to describe their now-common cause. Given the wide variety of regimes fighting on the same side [1] and the common ideological basis of the combatant countries, "nations" and "brotherhood of nations" style of nationalism were an umbrella everyone could get behind while still having an appropriate amount of emotional oomph.
[1] Mostly. The USSR wasn't fighting Japan.