Post on 14-Jan-2016
Post WW2 Alliances1945 - Present
United Nations
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Warsaw Pact
The United NationsMain Aims: •Bring countries together to maintain peace•Help the poor, hungry, sick, and illiterate•Enhance individuals rights and freedoms
When did it begin?
Set up in 1945, after the Second World War, as a way of bringing people together and to avoid further wars
It started with 51 countries
Currently 193 countries (out of approx. 206)
Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What does the UN do?
UNESCO
IAEAFAO IMFWHOWFPUNICEFWB
and more…
UN Educational Scientific & Cultural OrganizationInternational Atomic Energy AssociationFood & Agriculture OrganizationInternational Monetary FundWorld Health OrganizationWorld Food ProgramUN Children’s FundWorld Bank
N.A.T.O.Routine Soviet veto at UN led to a new organization in 1949; NATO
“an armed attack against one or more of them … shall be considered an attack against them all.”
“Association of democratic peace-loving states to defend Western Europe from the Soviet Union”
The Warsaw Pact
Soviet response to NATOMilitary alliance with satellite nations1955 – 1991
Return to AlliancesOne reason for WW I were alliancesNew alliances developed after WW IINew powers, new ideologies and new weaponsCan be argued that new alliances prevented war