After World War II, nations across the globe decided increase their cooperation and communication in an effort to avoid world wide conflicts such as World War II. In that regard, the United Nations was founded with the headquarters in New York (and is still there today). Although the original members of the UN included 51 nations, the founding members of the United Nations was the United States, the Soviet Union, France, Great Britain, Spain, Australia and Canada. Each nation provides a certain number of soldiers to "UN Peacekeeping Forces." At the end of World War II, the United States provided the greatest number of soldiers and still do so today.