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International Organizations Founded from 1945 Onward

International organizations founded after the Second World War, among them the alliances of the Cold War, the oil exporters cartel and the first European economic communities. An organization belongs here when its cited article gives a founding or establishment date inside this span. It excludes organizations founded earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring groups of the same kind, and it does not turn on how large or long-lived an organization became.

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Wikipedia: Warsaw Pact
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The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics in Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
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Wikipedia: European Coal and Steel Community
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It was formally established in 1951 by the Treaty of Paris, signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany and was generally seen as the first step in the process of European integration following the end of the Second World War in Europe.
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Wikipedia: United Nations
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The United Nations (UN) is an international intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations on 26 June 1945 with the articulated mission of maintaining international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among states, to promote international cooperation, and to serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of states in achieving those goals.
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Wikipedia: NATO
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Founded in the aftermath of World War II, NATO was established with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.
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Wikipedia: World Health Organization
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The WHO was established on 7 April 1948, and formally began its work on 1 September 1948.
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Wikipedia: Non-Aligned Movement
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But it soon after became the name to refer to the participants of the Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries first held in 1961.
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Wikipedia: Organisation of African Unity
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The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; French: Organisation de l'unité africaine, OUA) was an African intergovernmental organisation established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 33 signatory governments.
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Wikipedia: Arab League
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The aims of the league in 1945 were to strengthen and coordinate the political, cultural, economic and social programmes of its members and to mediate disputes among them or between them and third parties.
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Wikipedia: ASEAN
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The roots of ASEAN came from the ASEAN Declaration signed by five Southeast Asian countries in 1967.
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Wikipedia: Comecon
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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, often abbreviated as Comecon ( KOM-ik-ON) or CMEA, was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world.
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