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