The global economic state of post World War II called for the creation of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the World Bank ( the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

After World War II, tariff and trade agreements were negotiated simultaneously by all interested parties through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), which ultimately resulted in the World Trade Organization in 1994.

Thus, after the Second World War, the West turned to multilateral agreements such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

" Modern trade law ( extending beyond bilateral treaties ) began shortly after the Second World War, with the negotiation of a multilateral treaty to deal with trade in goods: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

" The GATT in Historical Perspective ," American Economic Review Vol.

* Steve Charnovitz, " Living in an Ecolonomy: Environmental Cooperation and the GATT ," Kennedy School of Government, April 1994.

* Steve Charnovitz, " Living in an Ecolonomy: Environmental Cooperation and the GATT ," Kennedy School of Government, April 1994.

It is found in all 3 of the main WTO agreements ( GATT, GATS and TRIPS ).

The principle of national treatment is formulated in Article 3 of the GATT 1947 ( and incorporated by reference in GATT 1994 ); Article 17 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ); and in Article 3 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ( TRIPS ).

" " The 97 signatories to GATT account for two-thirds of the $ 3 trillion in merchandise traded each year.

One of the inescapable realities of the Cold War is that it has thrust upon the West a wholly new and historically unique set of moral dilemmas.

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.

It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.

Here is the best short explanation of the origins of the Cold War that has been written.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

He intimated that they weren't doing the country much good in the Cold War.

At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.

Angola-Zimbabwe relations have remained cordial since the birth of both states, Angola in 1975 and Zimbabwe in 1979, during the Cold War.

The treaty was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War.

* 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term " Cold War " to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

* 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

* 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

During the Cold War, the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-communists, but many local affiliates defended members of the Communist Party.

As a result of this, the main battle tank ( MBT ) conceived in the Cold War era can survive multiple RPG strikes with minimal effect on the crew or the operation of the vehicle.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

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He became a pioneer of the " modern-day political thriller ," having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War.

* Buchanan, Paul G. " Lilliputian in Fluid Times: New Zealand Foreign Policy after the Cold War ," Political Science Quarterly ( 2010 ) 125 # 2 pp 255 – 279

* " Remedy ," a song by Cold from Year of the Spider

Syria and Pakistan, two nations which were hardly regarded by the United States as paragons of rectitude, avoided being added to the list because the United States hoped that Damascus could play a constructive role in the Arab-Israeli " peace process ," and because Washington had long maintained close relations with Islamabad — a vestige of the Cold War.

In his book The Cold War Gaddis argues that, in their use of the phrase " evil empire ," Reagan and his anti-Communist political allies were effective in breaking the détente tradition, thus laying the ground for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

As 31st Century time traveler Daniels revealed to Captain Jonathan Archer in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Cold Front ," as time travel technology became practical, the Temporal Accords were established sometime significantly prior to the 31st Century, in order to allow the use of time travel for the purposes of studying history, while prohibiting the use of it to alter history.

Noam Chomsky has criticized the concept of the clash of civilizations as just being a new justification for the United States " for any atrocities that they wanted to carry out ," which was required after the Cold War as the Soviet Union was no longer a viable threat.

Since the end of the Cold War, Norway has developed a model to foreign policy known as the " Norwegian model ," the goal of which is to contribute to peace and stability through coordinated response among governmental and non-governmental Norwegian organizations ; acting as an honest broker in international conflicts ; an informal network of Norwegian individuals with access and credibility among parties ; and the willingness to take the long view in international issues.

On June 12, 2001, TNT relaunched itself, with a new logo ( by Trollbäck + Company ) and a new slogan, " We Know Drama ," which emphasized the channel's new focus on programming with drama and energy, such as sports and network TV dramas like Angel, Law & Order, Charmed, NYPD Blue, ER, Without a Trace, Alias, Judging Amy, Las Vegas and Cold Case.

" Congress and the Origins of the Cold War: The Truman Doctrine ," World Affairs, Vol.

" Kennan, ' Universalism ,' and the Truman Doctrine ," Journal of Cold War Studies, Spring 2009, Vol.

The Reagan Doctrine was especially significant because it represented a substantial shift in the post – World War II foreign policy of the U. S. Prior to the Reagan Doctrine, U. S. foreign policy in the Cold War was rooted in " containment ," as originally defined by George F. Kennan, John Foster Dulles, and other post – World War II U. S. foreign policy experts.

In its review of the film, Time wrote that McDaniel was one of the points of relief in an otherwise " grim study ," saying, " Hattie McDaniel, whose bubbling, blaring good humor more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie.

Crumb often plays mandolin with Eden and John's East River String Band and has drawn three covers for them: 2009's " Drunken Barrel House Blues ," 2008's " Some Cold Rainy Day ," and 2011's " Be Kind To A Man When He's Down " which he also plays mandolin on.

The Soviet Government, " taking into account ... conditions which do not exclude the possibility of a mistake from one side or the other ," was willing to compensate the US for 50 % of damages sustained — the first such offer ever made by the Soviets for any Cold War shootdown incident.

It is also well known in the area as having two water towers, facetiously labeled " Hot " and " Cold ," respectively.

Though prison was not something she would have chosen, she said, " It was still lovely to wake up in the morning and feel that one was lovely ," when she compared her lot to the other women incarcerated at Holloway ( Oswald Mosley later mentioned this to Diana's sister Nancy, who in turn included the line in her novel, Love in a Cold Climate ).

* Sylvia Foley, author of the critically acclaimed " Life in the Air Ocean ," graduated from Cold Spring Harbor High School in 1972.

" If we can talk to aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind ," he said, " why not with the Reds in the Cold War?

In 2005, the fiftieth anniversary of the Dagger Awards, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was awarded the " Dagger of Daggers ," a one-time award given to the Golden Dagger winner regarded as the stand-out among all fifty winners over the history of CWA.

Williams had 11 number one hits in his career (" Lovesick Blues ," " Long Gone Lonesome Blues ," " Why Don't You Love Me ," " Moanin ' the Blues ," " Cold, Cold Heart ," " Hey, Good Lookin '," " Jambalaya ( On the Bayou )," " I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive ," " Kaw-Liga ," " Your Cheatin ' Heart ," and " Take These Chains from My Heart "), as well as many other top ten hits.