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International Organizations
The alliances and multinational bodies the United States built, funds, or leads.
NATO
The 1949 alliance that bound America to Europe's defense and deterred the Soviet Union for forty years
United Nations
The international body America founded in 1945 — and has funded, led, and defied ever since
