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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
(Encyclopedia)Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), alliance organized (1954) under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty by representatives of Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Pakistan, ...Committee for Industrial Organization
(Encyclopedia)Committee for Industrial Organization: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. ...European Free Trade Association
(Encyclopedia)European Free Trade Association (EFTA), customs union and trading bloc; its current members are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. EFTA was established in 1960 by Austria, Denmark, Great...Organization of the Islamic Conference
(Encyclopedia)Organization of the Islamic Conference: see Organization of Islamic Cooperation. ...Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(Encyclopedia)Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), international body (est. 1997) responsible for the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which aims at the destruction o...International Trade Commission, United States
(Encyclopedia)International Trade Commission, United States, independent agency of the U.S. government established in 1916 as the Tariff Commission; renamed International Trade Commission in 1975. It is charged wit...World Wide Web
(Encyclopedia)World Wide Web (WWW or W3), collection of globally distributed text and multimedia documents and files and other network services linked in such a way as to create an immense electronic library from w...World Education Fellowship
(Encyclopedia)World Education Fellowship: see New Education Fellowship. ...World Conservation Union
(Encyclopedia)World Conservation Union: see International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. ...World War II
(Encyclopedia)World War II, 1939–45, worldwide conflict involving every major power in the world. The two sides were generally known as the Allies and the Axis. Although hostilities came to an end in Sept...Browse by Subject
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