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After world war II Europe lost all of its supermacy and the USA as well as the USSR became the two superpowers, each with nuclear weapons.

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The Marshall Plan was one such effort by the USA in war-torn countries. Rapid industrilisation was taking place, particularly in Asia; a lot of new inventions were taking place during that time, such as the production of energy and engines for jet planes during the war.

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The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War

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The United Nations came into being on 24 October 1945, after World War II to maintain world peace, nearly all the countries around the world had joined the United Nations. The main bodies of the United Nations are: The General Assembly, The Security Council, The Secretariat, The Economic and Social Council, and The International Court of Justice.

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During the 1948 War in Kashmir, the United Nations had to interfere and ceasefire was estalished. It was decided by the United Nations that a plebiscite* to be held in Kashmir which decided if the people of Kashmir want to be a part of India or Pakistan. So far the plebiscite has still not taken place therefore the is still no decesion on this war.

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The two superpowers at the time, USA and USSR, had enterd into a confrontaion* to create spheres of influence for their doctrines* of capitalism and communism. Many countries, including China, adopted to communism as an ideology, and most countries around the world began to side with either superpower: communit countries with Russia and capatilist countires with USA. This ostility came to be called 'The Cold War', which meant that without armed conflict both superpowers tried to curtail the influence of the other.

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After The Cold War there were actually two wars that took place in spite of the war. The fist war was over Vietnam where the USA tried, by sending in its forces, to halt the takeover of that country by the Communists. Howerever North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, won the war with The Fall of Sagion in 1975.

The second war took place with Russian invasion of of Afghanistan in 1979 to support the communist goverment that replaced the republic. It took eight years of war until finally the USSR had to retreat from Afghanistan. This also led to the breakup of the USSR in 1989.

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Britan took over Palestine after World War I ended and under Zionist pressure the British goverment, with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, gave the Jews the right to settle in Plaestine.

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Britan wanted The United States to join the World War I and hoped that by supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the Jews would be later able to persudae the US to join the war.