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ELI5: How was France chosen for a spot on the U.N. Security Council as a veto-wielding member?

It just seems like there would be better options for this spot, Brazil, India or Japan?
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It was one of the surviving non-Axis great powers at the end of the war.  Whatever one might think of France, from the perspective of a person living in 1945 with a knowledge of history, leaving France out would have seemed much less odd a concept than the inclusion of China probably was.

Brazil was a minor power.  India was part of the British empire and not independent at all.  Japan was smoldering ruins and under American occupation.  So those were never even really considered.