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Conferences and Tribunals of the Postwar International Order

Gatherings of governments and tribunals set up by governments in the years after the Second World War that shaped the international order, including the Bandung Conference of Asian and African states and the Nuremberg trials of the major war criminals. An event belongs here when its cited source describes states meeting or an international body sitting to settle a question of world order. The group sits under the Diplomatic Conferences and International Proceedings subcategory of the Political Atlas and helps a reader browse that subcategory by the kind of international proceeding each event was. Each member is placed on the strength of the page it cites, so a reader can follow the grouping back to a stated source.

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Bretton Woods Conference (Office of the Historian)
U.S. Department of State, Office of the HistorianHas Member: Bretton Woods Conference, Opening paragraph
Quote, Has Member: Bretton Woods Conference, Opening paragraph
The result was the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at the July 1944 Bretton Woods Conference
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Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State: Bandung Conference (Asian-African Conference), 1955
Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of StateHas Member: Bandung Conference, Page text
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In April, 1955, representatives from twenty-nine governments of Asian and African nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia to discuss peace and the role of the Third World in the Cold War, economic development, and decolonization.
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Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State: The Nuremberg Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Trials (1945-1948)
Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of StateHas Member: Nuremberg Trials, Page text
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The four major Allied powers-France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States-set up the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg, Germany, to prosecute and punish “the major war criminals of the European Axis.” The IMT presided over a combined trial of senior Nazi political and military leaders, as well as several Nazi organizations.
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