At 7:09 P.M., the twelfth of April, 1945, two and a half hours after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman held a Gideons' Bible in his left hand and took the oath of office as thirty-third president of the United States.
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United Nations
a history
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With four new chapters, this updated edition of United Nations: A History completes the story of the UN's last sixty-five years, its successes and turbulent past. United Nations: A History begins with the creation of the organization in 1945. Although its aim was to prevent war, many conflicts have arisen, ranging from the Korean War to the Six-Day War, to genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda. Stanley Meisler's in-depth research examines the crises and many key political leaders. In this second edition, Meisler brings his popular history up to date with accounts of the power struggles of the last fifteen years, specifically spotlighting the terms of secretaries-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan, and Ban Ki-moon. This is an important, riveting, and impartial guide through the past and recent events of the sixty-five-year history of the United Nations. - Publisher.
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United Nations: The First Fifty Years
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Table of Contents
The beginnings : from Dumbarton Oaks to San Francisco
Trygve lie and Iran : off to a bad start
Ralph Bunche and the infant state of Israel
The Korean War : no more Manchurias
Dag Hammarskjold
Suez : the empires strike out
The battles of Katanga and the crash of Hammarskjold
Adlai Stevenson and the Cuban Missile Crisis : the U.N. as theater
U Thant and the quest for peace in Vietnam
The Six-Day War
Kurt Waldheim : the big lie
Zionism Is racism
UNESCO : defenses of peace in the minds of men
Javier Perez de Cuellar and the end of the Cold War
The Persian Gulf War
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The Somalia debacle
Alibi : the U.N. in Bosnia
Horrors in Rwanda
Kofi Annan : the acidental Secretary-General
America defies the U.N and invades Iraq
Ban Ki-moon, the slippery eel
Epilogue: The Arab Spring
A UN chronology
Appendix : U.N. peacekeeping missions
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