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The League of Nations was formed in response to the horrific slaughters of WWI. The headquarters was based in Geneva in Switzerland, because it was a neutral country in the war. The League of Nations was to prevent wars through collective security and settling international disputes through negotiation
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At the end of WWI, the treaty of Versailles stated that Germany was to pay for the damages of the war in cash or other valuable goods of the equal value. However, Germany could not meet the deadline. The anti-German attitudes in France and Britain led them to break League rules and invade a German industrial city. These two coutries were the leaders of the league, and they broke their own rules.
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A war erupted in Turkey, however the League contributed to treating the aftermath. 1,400,000 refugees, of which 80% were women and children, were constantly suffering from Typhoid and Cholera. The League sent 10 million euros and doctors to check the spread of disease and invest in beginning a new (agricultural) life for the refugees.
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Sentries patrolling the Greek/Bulgaria border fired on one another and a Greek soldier was killed, so the Greek army invaded Bulgaria. The Bulgarians turned to the League for help and the League ordered both armies to stop fighting and fined Greece £45,000. Both nations accepted the decision.
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World Bank is one of five institutions created at the Bretton Woods Conference. Its intended mission was to reduce world poverty.
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The UN Charter had been ratified by a majority of the original 51 Member States. The day is now celebrated each year around the world as United Nations Day.
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At the start of World War II, the League had failed its ultimate goal of preventing war and international turnoil. The League disbanded in Geneva, on the grounds that they had failed their mission entirely.
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The U.N. Commission on Human Rights promoted free and fair elections helped many countries transition to democracy. The U.N.’s intense attention to specific human rights abuses helped more than 30 million refugees.
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Poland withdraws from the Bank, claiming the Bank intended subordination of Europe to the United States. World Bank replied that the Polish government was in error, and that the Bank's operations had been conducted in accordance with the Articles of Agreement.
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North Korea suddenly attatcked South Korea. In response,the UN force attacked Northern forces with its own military but its action provoked a response from China. Stalemate by 1953 when ceasefire signed. Still in force today.
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Bank lending exceeded $700 million and consisted of 30 loans in 19 different countries. Electric power was the sector with the greatest amount of lending, followed by transportation (primarily railway improvements). Loans for industry, mining, and agriculture were also made.
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The World Bank enters into agreement with World Health Organization. Both organizations together establish a jointly financed cooperative program, to deal in the fields of water supply, waste disposal, and storm drainage.
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Developing world debt rose at an average annual rate of 20%, in the Bank's attempt at solving "poverty" in these developing nations with strictly facilitated loans.
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40 governments successfully decided negotiations for tariff-free trade in information technology products, and 70 members concluded a financial services deal covering more than 95% of trade in banking, insurance, securities and financial information.
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Protests surrounded the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to launch of a new round of trade negotiations.The WTO seemed to be on a crusade to increase private profit at the expense of all other considerations, including the well-being and quality of life of the mass of the world's people.
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An interim administration mission kosovo starts; a mission to establish civilian administration in Kosovo, an area of dispute between the Serbian Government and the Albanian population. The administration is largely seen as a success, pulling the area for wartime strife into a functional, ultimately self-administering autonomous region.
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The World Health Organization played a significant role in diagnosing and containing the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) .
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The sixth WTO ministerial conference was held in Hong Kong. In this meeting, further concessions to developing countries included an agreement to introduce duty free, tariff free access for goods from the LEDC's (less economically developed countries).
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Protests at Geneva, citing that agreements produced by the bank, foster the growth of wealth among corporations at the expense of farmers, workers, and others at the low end of the economy.
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The General Council of UNESCO voted in favour of admitting Palestine as a member state. This membership became effective on November 23, 2011. On December 13, the Palestinian flag was raised for the first time at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
