1776 was the birth of the US through the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration by United Nations was drafted at the White House by US President FDR, Churchill, and Hopkins on the 29th of December of 1941 (that's the week they always try to sneak things through while people are too busy with Christmas to care each year). Roosevelt coined the term United Nations to described the Allied Countries which makes me think that anybody outside the UN are to be treated as the opposite of allies. In other words, if you're not in the UN, you're the enemy is the mindset. A few days later in 1942, 26 countries signed it which according to the UN website, it was "embodied in the Atlantic Charter."