post-war order
Victors' new system
Post-war order is the political, economic, and territorial arrangement established after a major conflict ends.
The term most often refers to the international system created after World War II—including the United Nations, NATO, and institutions like the World Bank: The invasion challenged the post-war order.
Any significant war produces its own post-war order through treaties, borders redrawn, and new power balances.
- alliancesFormal unions for cooperation
- iron curtainDivider of forged metal
- truth commissionsOfficial bodies investigating past atrocities
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- rebuilding effortsWork to restore damaged areas
United Nations · collective security · Bretton Woods system · reparations · treaties · war crimes tribunals · victor's justice · NATO · Potsdam Conference · denazification · World Bank · diplomacy · international law · balance of power · IMF · trade agreements · refugee resettlement · spheres of influence
- UN foundingUnited Nations, UN Charter, United Nations Charter, founding members, original members
- WWI PeacemakingTreaty of Versailles, Versailles Treaty, Paris Peace Conference, armistice talks, peace treaty
post-war orderwartime
Period of armed conflict
war · state of war · hostilities · armed conflict · interwar period
post-war orderchaos
Complete disorder and confusion
anarchy · disorder · state of war · power vacuum · lawlessness
post, order, postwar, warring, warred, warrior, warriors, warlike, wartime