1. Post WW2 Alliances 1945 - Present
United Nations
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Warsaw Pact

2. The United Nations Main Aims:
Why is the logo of the UN significant?
Main Aims:
Bring countries together to maintain peace
Help the poor, hungry, sick, and illiterate
Enhance individuals rights and freedoms

3. 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

4. What does the UN do? UNESCO IAEA FAO IMF WHO WFP UNICEF WB and more…
UN Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization
International Atomic Energy Association
Food & Agriculture Organization
International Monetary Fund
World Health Organization
World Food Program
UN Children’s Fund
World Bank

5. 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”

6. The Warsaw Pact Soviet response to NATO
Military alliance with satellite nations
1955 – 1991

7. Return to Alliances Capitalism Communism
One reason for WW I were alliances
New alliances developed after WW II
New powers, new ideologies and new weapons
Can be argued that new alliances prevented war
Capitalism
Communism