Source 1 “The purposes of the new international organization should be:

1. To maintain international peace and security and take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to peace and to settle international disputes by peaceful means.

2. To develop friendly relations among nations to strengthen universal peace.

3. To achieve international cooperation in the solution of international economic, social, and other humanitarian problems.

A Security Council to make decisions related to maintaining peace will be established that should consist of one representative of each of eleven members of the organization. Representatives of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the Republic of China, and France, should have permanent seats.”

Agreement reached by the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and China, Washington D. C., 1944

Source 2

“The purposes of the new international bank are:

1. To assist collectively in the reconstruction and development of members’ countries by facilitating cooperation among member states in the restoration of economies destroyed or disrupted by war and the encouragement of the development of productive facilities and resources in less developed countries.

2. To promote private foreign investment by means of guarantees or participations in loans to member countries.

3. To promote the long-range balanced growth of international trade, thereby assisting in raising productivity, the standard of living, and conditions of labor in member countries’ territories.

The Executive Directors shall be responsible for the conduct of the general operations of the bank, and for this purpose, shall exercise all the powers delegated to them by the Board of Governors. Five of the executive directors will be appointed by the five members having the largest number of shares in the bank. The other directors will be elected from the other member states.

The purposes of the International Monetary Fund are:

1. To promote international monetary cooperation through a permanent institution that facilitates consultation and collaboration on international monetary problems.

2. To facilitate the expansion and balanced growth of international trade.”

Agreement reached between delegates from 44 nations, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, 1944

The ideas behind the establishment of the council referred to in Source 1 and the ideas behind the establishment of the bank referred to in Source 2 are most similar in that

A. while the council and the bank were intended to provide benefits to all members, a small group of states were allowed to retain permanent decision-making power

B. although the council and the bank were intended to provide benefits to all states, membership was restricted to only European and Asian states

C. while the council and the bank promised aid to all states equally, the terms of that aid were subject to various restrictions

D. although the council and the bank wanted member states to agree willingly to their decisions, they received the right to implement sanctions to force compliance