Arrange the following in chronological order of their formation year.

A. World Trade Organisation
B. Amnesty International
C. League of Nations
D. World Bank

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

C, D, B, A

The correct answer is option (2) - C, D, B, A

A. World Trade Organisation - 1995
B. Amnesty International - 1961
C. League of Nations - 1919
D. World Bank - 1944

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is an international organisation which sets the rules for global trade. This organisation was set up in 1995 as the successor to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) created after the Second World War.

Amnesty International was founded in London, United Kingdom, in 1961. It was established by British lawyer Peter Benenson after he read an article about two Portuguese students who were imprisoned for raising a toast to freedom.  It is an NGO that campaigns for the protection of human rights all over the world.  It promotes respect for all the human rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It believes that human rights are interdependent and indivisible. It prepares and publishes reports on human rights. Governments are not always happy with these reports since a major focus of Amnesty is the misconduct of government authorities.

The First World War encouraged the world to invest in an international organisation to deal with conflict. Many believed that such an organisation would help the world to avoid war. As a result, the League of Nations was born. The UN was founded as a successor to the League of Nations. The League of Nations was a product of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, involving representatives from many countries. The 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, is considered the main architect of the League of Nations.

The World Bank was created during the Second World War in 1944. Its activities are focused on the developing countries. It works for human development (education, health), agriculture and rural development (irrigation, rural services), environment protection (pollution reduction, establishing and enforcing regulation), infrastructure (roads, urban regeneration, electricity) and governance (anti-corruption, development of legal institutions). It provides loans and grants to the member-countries. In this way, it exercises enormous influence on the economic policies of developing countries. It is often criticised for setting the economic agenda of the poorer nations, attaching stringent conditions to its loans and forcing free market reforms.