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Council on Foreign Relations formed.

1918

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After World War I ends, a group made up of 108 "high-ranking officers of banking, manufacturing, trading and finance companies, together with many lawyers" begins to meet to discuss the "next steps" for Europe and the U.S.

This group becomes the Council on Foreign Relations and will later grow into a nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. It joins together senior politicians, secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, and senior media figures. The think tank continues to exert influence over U.S. foreign policy today.