UN & NATO BASICS
HISTORY
FUN FACTS
STRUCTURE & MEMBERSHIP
MISSIONS & OPERATIONS
100

This is the official motto of the United Nations

What is "Peace, Dignity and Equality on a Healthy Planet"?

100

NATO was founded in this year.

What is 1949?

100

NATO was originally founded with this many members.

What is 12?

100

NATO’s headquarters is located in this city.

What is Brussels?

100

NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time after this event.

What is 9/11?

200

This NATO-led mission operated in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021.

What is the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)?

200

The UN replaced this failed international organization.

What is the League of Nations?

200

This was the first country to leave NATO and later rejoin.

What is France?

200

The UN’s headquarters is in this city.

What is New York City?

200

The UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL in this Middle Eastern country has been ongoing since 1978.

What is Lebanon?

300

The UN’s primary purpose is ____, while NATO’s is ____.

What is "peacekeeping and diplomacy" and "collective defense"?

300

This major Cold War event led NATO to strengthen its military presence in Europe.

What is the Berlin Blockade (or Berlin Airlift)?

300

The UN sends these special messengers, often celebrities, to promote its work.

What are Goodwill Ambassadors?

300

These are the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council.

What are China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States?

300

In 1994, a small group of UN peacekeepers defied orders and stayed behind to protect civilians during a genocide in this country, with one commander later saying, “We will not abandon you.”

What is Rwanda (UNAMIR - United nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda)?

400

The UN has this many member states.

What is 193?

400

The first NATO military action was in this region in the 1990s.

What is the Balkans (or Former Yugoslavia)?

400

NATO has this unique military policy that involves nuclear weapons sharing.

What is the Nuclear Sharing Agreement?

400

The newest NATO member, joining in 2023.

What is Finland?

400

The UN’s largest current peacekeeping mission is in this African country

What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)?

500

The official languages of NATO are these two.

What are English and French?

500

This part of the NATO treaty states that an attack on one member is an attack on all.

What is Article 5?

500

This NATO member does not have a standing army.

What is Iceland?

500

NATO’s Secretary General is appointed for this many years.

What is four (years)?

500

NATO conducted a secretive operation in this country in the 1990s, involving undercover special forces to capture war criminals.

What is Bosnia and Herzegovina (Operation Amber Star / Amber Fox)?

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