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Why did world leaders decide to set up a world organisation to maintain peace?
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The world leaders decided to set up a world organisation to maintain peace for the following reasons-
- The destruction caused by the two World Wars.
- The failure of the League of Nations to prevent wars and maintain peace.
- The fear of a Third World War.
- The division of the world into two power blocs led by the US and the USSR, respectively.
- The invention of weapons of mass destruction like the atom bomb.
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