World Firsts
In 1945, this country became the first to ratify the United Nations Charter.
United States
This city is home to the headquarters of the United Nations.
New York
This organization organizes the World Cup, the most-watched international football tournament.
FIFA
In 2008, the United Nations declared an International Year celebrating this common vegetable.
In the UN General Assembly, they choose this method to select the country that gets the first seat in the chamber each year.
Drawing lots
The first major United Nations world conference focused on the environment took place in 1972 in this city.
Stockholm, Sweden
The headquarters of INTERPOL, the international criminal police organization, is in this French city.
Lyon
This military alliance is based on the principle that an armed attack against one member may be treated as an attack against all.
NATO
This organization awards the Nobel Peace Prize, unlike the other Nobel prizes awarded by Swedish institutions.
Norwegian Nobel Committee
This country in the NATO does not having a standing army.
In 1953, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman to serve as President of the UN General Assembly, representing this country.
India
The first meeting of the UN General Assembly in 1946 took place in which city, before the UN's New York headquarters was built.
London
This specialized agency was created in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles and later became the very first specialized agency of the UN in 1946.
International Labor Organization
This Southeast Asian country announced it was withdrawing from the UN in 1965, then resumed participation the following year.
Indonesia
Which two Soviet republics held their own UN founding memberships despite being part of the USSR?
Ukraine and Belarus
The world's first intergovernmental organization
League of Nations
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is headquartered in this African city.
Nairobi, Kenya
This organization operates in the nuclear field and sends inspectors to verify that nuclear materials are not diverted from peaceful uses.
IAEA
This is the only human infectious disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared eradicated.
Smallpox
How many UN agencies received the Nobel Peace Prize?
4
The UN launched its first large-scale peacekeeping operation in this African country in 1960.
The Republic of the Congo
This South Korean city hosts the headquarters of the Green Climate Fund, established to help developing countries finance climate action.
Songdo, Incheon
Founded in 1874, this is the world's oldest international organizations founded in 1874.
Universal Postal Union
During a heated UN General Assembly meeting in 1960, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly banged this object on his desk to express his anger.
His shoe
This country cast the very first veto in UN Security Council history in 1946.
Soviet Union