Sentence:  After this holocaust , a changing world occupied the minds of men ; a world beset with new boundaries , new treaties and governments , new <WSD>goals</WSD> and methods , and the age-old fears of aggression and subjugation - hunger and exposure . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it