 France, despite being one of the ‘Big Five’, the five states who are permanent members of the UNSC and hold veto power, was largely left out of the planning process for the new international organisation tasked with maintaining peace post-WWII and was only reluctantly added later after most of the planning was done.The term “United Nations” was first used much earlier than the official 1945 start of the international organisation in the 1942 ‘Declaration of the United Nations’, a 26-nation conference (not including France which was under Nazi occupation and thus not legally a government) where governments pledged to continue their fight during WWII against the axis powers.In a series of conferences and forums over the next few years, mainly behind closed doors, the then ‘Big Three’ allied powers of WWII, (the United States, The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union) began drafting plans for an international organisation to maintain international peace, building off the mistakes of the earlier League of Nations.