Power in international relations

Notes on Key Issue 3: Ch. 8 Political and Military Cooperation- most states joined the United Nations, were established primarily to prevent a third world war and protect countries from a foreign attack The United Nations- most important international organization, created at the end of World War II by the victorious Allies in 1945, comprised 49 states at first but grew to 191 in 2003, Increased rapidly because: 1955, 1960 and the early 1990s Sixteen countries joined in 1955, European countries that had been liberated from Nazi Germany during World War II Seventeen new members added in 1960 Twenty-six countries added between 1990 and 1993 from break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia