The United Nations

Click on UN At A Glance. Answer the Following: 1.What are the four main purposes of the United Nations? (Google to find a picture of the UN completing each of these purposes.)

Click on UN At A Glance. Answer the Following: What year was the United Nations founded? What war had just ended? What were the founding countries committed to?

UN At A Glance. Answer the Following: What four things is the UN most known for? (Google for a Picture of the UN completing these goals.)

UN At A Glance. Answer the Following: What are some of the issues that the UN works on? (Google to add pictures.)

Download the 10 Facts in the Did You Know? What are the ten facts?

Click on the UN Charter Answer the Following: How many chapters are in the Charter? What does Ch. 18 cover? What does Ch. 10 cover? What does Ch. 4 Cover?

Click on Member States Choose one country for each letter of the Alphabet to show the countries that are in the UN. Are there any letters that do not have a country, if so, what are they?

Click on History Answer the Following: Who came up with the name United Nations? How many countries were originally in the United Nations? What did these first countries come together to defeat? What two specialized agencies came before the official United Nations?

History of the United Nations Answer the Following: Where was the International Peace Conference held in 1899? What were the three goals of this conference? What was the League of Nations? What war was occurring when the League of Nations was created? What treaty was important during 1919? What event caused the League of Nations to fail?

How many countries were represented in 1945 to create the United Nations Charter and where did they meet? Which country was not present at the original meeting but signed the charter later and became the 51 st original member? Who signed the charter in October of 1945 to officially create the league of nations? When is United Nations Day?

Click Answer the Following: What Conference was held on Feb. 11, 1945 and what did they establish? What happened on January 10, 1946 and where was the event held? What was signed on Dec. 10, 1948?

Click on Answer the following: What did the UN win in 1954? How many countries join the United Nations in Sept. 1960? Where were 16 from?

Click on Answer the Following: Who did the UN have a voluntary arms embargo on in August 7, 1963? Who wins the Nobel Peace Price in 1965? What treaty is ratified on June 12, 1968? Who wins the Nobel Peace Price in 1969?

Answer the Following: Who becomes a member of the United Nations on October 25, 1971? What conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1972? Which disease is called eradicated on May 8, 1980?

Answer the Following: Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1981? What does the General Assembly adopt on December 10, 1984? Who wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988? What comes into force on Sept. 2, 1990?

Answer the Following: What was held in Vienna in June of 1993? Who holds their first elections in October of 1994? What anniversary does the United Nations celebrate in 1995? What does the General Assembly adopt on Sept. 10, 1996?

Answer the Following: What does the United Nations adopt on June of 2001? What does the UN win the Nobel Peace Price for on Dec. 21, 2001? What is the first permanent treat on international criminal court? (1 July 2002) What is dedicated on August 19, 2003, and what did it honor?

Answer the Following: What did the UN adopt on March 8, 2005? On Dec. 20, 2005 the UN created the Peacebuilding Commission what did it do? What was created on July 2, 2010?

POST A PICTURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS EMBLEM AND FLAG. WHAT DOES THE EMBLEM AND FLAG REPRESENT?

What occurred on October 31, 2011? Who received non-Member Observer Status on Nob. 29, 2012?

Languages of the UN What are the official languages of the UN? What are the working languages of the UN? What happens if someone wants to speak in an unofficial language?

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