Dumbarton Oaks Conference
The Dumbarton Oaks Conference was an expert conference during World War II . It took place from August 21 to October 7, 1944 in the country house Dumbarton Oaks in the American capital Washington, DC and is named after the venue in the Georgetown district.
Participants were the United States , the United Kingdom , the Soviet Union and the Republic of China .
The topic of the conference was the development of the United Nations from the idea of the League of Nations , but with the inclusion of America. At the conference, the first draft of the United Nations Charter was prepared. In the course of several meetings, the participants agreed on the goals, structure and functioning of the new world organization.
The following institutions go back to the conference: the General Assembly , the Security Council , the Secretariat and the International Court of Justice in The Hague .
See also
literature
- Document collection: The Conference of Representatives of the USSR, the USA and Great Britain at Dumbarton Oaks (August 21 - September 28, 1944) , Moscow 1988. ISBN 3-329-00165-8
- Robert C. Hilderbrand: Dumbarton Oaks: the origins of the United Nations and the search for postwar security , Chapel Hill 1990. ISBN 0-8078-1894-1
- Georg Schild: Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks: American economic and political postwar planning in the summer of 1944 , New York 1995. ISBN 0-312-12216-0
- Dumbarton Oaks conversations: 1944-1994; a look behind the scenes; an exhibition catalog , Washington, DC 1994. ISBN 0-88402-231-5
- Ernest R. May (ed.): The Dumbarton Oaks conversations and the United Nations, 1944-1994 , Washington, DC 1998. ISBN 0-88402-255-2