During the 20th century political figures such as woodrow wilson and winston churchill used the term new world order to refer to a new period of history characterised by a dramatic change in world political thought and in the global balance of power after world war i and world war ii. In july 1945 at the close of world war ii the leaders of the us great britain and the soviet union gathered at a prussian royal palace in potsdam outside the conquered german capital to hammer. The term new world order refers to a new period of history evidencing dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power despite varied interpretations of this term it is primarily associated with the ideological notion of world governance only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify understand or address global problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation states to solve the phrase new world order or similar language was used in the period towar. This new world order is theorized by some to involve a group or groups of elitist people bent on ruling the world through a single worldwide system of government the appeal of this new world order lies in its proposal to free the world of wars and political strife and its promises to eradicate poverty disease and hunger its purpose is to