Post-War Reconstruction and the UN
The formation of the United Nations and the shift from a Eurocentric world to a bipolar world dominated by the US and USSR.
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- 1How did the UN seek to prevent a third world war?
- 2What role did Australia play in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
- 3How did the end of WWII trigger the process of decolonisation?
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