The Declaration by United Nations was a World War II document agreed to on January 1, 1942 by 26 governments, several of them governments-in-exile. The original signatories were the United States, the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... A government in exile is a political group that claims to be a countrys legitimate government, but for various reasons is unable to exercise its legal power, and instead resides in a foreign country. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...

The parties pledged to uphold the Atlantic Charter, to employ all their resources in the war against the Axis powers and agreed not to negotiate a separate peace with Nazi Germany, Italy or Japan like the Triple Entente had agreed with respect to the Central Powers in World War I under the Unity Pact. Roosevelt and Churchill at their 1941 secret meeting in the North Atlantic, lasting August 9th through the 12th. ... The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed to the Allies. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... The Triple Entente was the alliance formed in 1907 between the United Kingdom, France and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente. ... Central Powers is a term used to refer to the Dual Alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria during World War I. They are so called because they all lay between Russia in the east and France and the United Kingdom in the west. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

United Nations became synonymous during the war with the Allies and was considered to be the formal name they were fighting under. This article is about the United Nations, for other uses of UN see UN (disambiguation) Official languages English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic Secretary-General Kofi Annan (since 1997) Established October 24, 1945 Member states 191 Headquarters New York City, NY, USA Official site http://www. ... When spelt with a capital A, Allies usually denotes the countries that fought together against the Central Powers in World War I and against the Axis Powers in World War II. Other uses In general, allies are people or groups that have joined an alliance and are working together to...

Other countries subsequently signed the declaration. These were Mexico, the Philippines, and Ethiopia in 1942, Iraq, Brazil, Bolivia, Iran and Colombia in 1943, Liberia and France in 1944 and Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria and Ecuador in 1945. 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

External link

• Declaration by United Nations from a University of San Diego website