 Following the Second World War, a series of treaties governing the laws of war were adopted starting in 1949.These Geneva Conventions would come into force, in no small part, because of a general reaction against the practices of the Second World War.Although the Fourth Geneva Convention attempted to erect some legal defenses for civilians in time of war, the bulk of the Fourth Convention devoted to explicating civilian rights in occupied territories, and no explicit attention is paid to the problems of bombardment and the hazardous effects in the combat-zone.