The League of Nations final meeting was held at the Geneva Headquarters on April 12th, 1946, and finally disbanded on the 20th. Months prior, however, the foreign ministers of the USSR, Britain, the US, and The Republic of China met in moscow to discuss a replacement for the League. Later, the Dumbarton Oaks conference, pictured above, would propose a new form of the League of Nations in the “Proposals for the Establishment of a General International Organization”. Roosevelt, the new US President, believed, as Wilson did, that the US should play a major role in foreign affairs.
Similarities between the League and the United Nations, its successor, included the basic aims and objectives, as the Covenant was nearly the same as the Charter written by Roosevelt and Churchill. Also, the concept of collective security continued, as did most of the League’s organizations and establishments. However, fundamental differences included the dissolution of unanimous decisions in the General Assembly, and the establishment of a two-thirds majority in the Security Council. Also, the scope of the United Nations was meant to be more open, and more of an actual world organization.