World War II had been a major victory over fascism in which the two biggest aggressors, Germany and Japan, were soundly defeated. Most of mankind wondered how the new international organization, the United Nations, would work out. Although the new organization was like the League of Nations, it differed in some important respects. Although it was designed to incorporate all sovereign states in the international system, this proved to be legal equality in the General Assembly rather than political equality, because the five victorious allies (the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Britain, France, and the Republic of China) were given veto power in the Security Council.