Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The history of the United Nations as an international organization has its origins in World War II. Since then its aims and activities have expanded to make it the archetypal international body in the early 21st century.U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt first suggested using the name United Nations, to refer to the Allies of World War II, to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the latter's three-week visit to the White House in December 1941. Churchill accepted the idea and cited Lord Byron's use of the phrase "united nations" in the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which referred to the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Roosevelt adopted the name and the first official use of the term occurred on 1 January 1942 with the Declaration by the United Nations.During subsequent phases of World War II the Allies used the term United Nations to refer to their alliance."@en }
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- History_of_the_United_Nations abstract "The history of the United Nations as an international organization has its origins in World War II. Since then its aims and activities have expanded to make it the archetypal international body in the early 21st century.U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt first suggested using the name United Nations, to refer to the Allies of World War II, to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the latter's three-week visit to the White House in December 1941. Churchill accepted the idea and cited Lord Byron's use of the phrase "united nations" in the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which referred to the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Roosevelt adopted the name and the first official use of the term occurred on 1 January 1942 with the Declaration by the United Nations.During subsequent phases of World War II the Allies used the term United Nations to refer to their alliance.".