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In 1917 America entered World War I after staying neutral at first, this war is considred one of the reasons why the League of Nations was later created and established
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The Leage of Nations helped resolve a territory dispute between both Sweden and Finland. This result still holds today as Finland has possession of the islands yet has no military on it.
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Due to the invasion, Russia was expelled from the League of Nations, this action displayed the ineffectiveness of the organization, as this had minimal impact on Russia and failed to stop the invasion.
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Conference lasted from 1st of July to 22nd of July and is commonly known as the Bretton Woods Conference, at the conference the establishment of the IMF, GATT and IBRD were created.
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The International Development Association was created in order to aid the world's poorest countries. The association provides interest free loans to countries in order to provide money that can be used to help build infastructure and economy.
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The PRC took the ROC's seat in the United Nations, the PRC became a member of the Security Council,
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After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation joined the United Nations security council.
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The First Earth Summit was a important step by the United Nations to identify climate change and global warming as a serious threat
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The United Nations approved military intervention in Somalia in a attempt to stabalize the famine stricken and lawless country. The movie Black Hawk Down portrays some events that occured during part of the operation.
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The Uruguay round were meetings done through the World Trade Organization that reduced tariffs and helped promote global trade. This conference effectively transformed the GATT into the WTO.
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China became the 143rd country to join the world trade organization.
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Doha Development Round still ongoing
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The meeting in Hong Kong displayed the overall ineffectiveness of the World Trade Organization very little was accomplished and the agenda from the Doha round was still debated and argued about.
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The Climate Investment Funds were created by the World Bank in order to further and help establish needed renewable energy infastructure and materials.
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The United Nations established a mission that would help rebuild Libya after the Libyan Civil War
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The World Bank and IMF are pressured by the United Nations as part of their millennium development goals in a attempt to fight poverty, death and famine to drop 55 billion dollars in debt that developing nations owed the two banks
