Structure of the United Nations
The most powerful voting body in the UN.
What is the Security Council?
The Collective Security Principle, the Regional Principle, and the Association Principle.
What are the United Nations’ three key principles.
An example of the UN’s limited peacekeeping success.
what is the Suez Crisis?
A nation the UN became too involved in.
What is Congo?
When the US and/or USSR exerted outsize influence on the UN.
What is superpower aggression?
The US, UK, Russia (USSR), France, and China.
Who are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council?
A declaration that enshrines the freedoms and rights of human beings.
What is the Declaration of Human Rights?
An ideology that led Americans believe the UN was working for the Soviets.
What is McCarthyism?
What many of the African nations became involved in.
What was the ideological struggle between East and West?
A single member of the Security Council could cast _____ and halt all action.
What is a veto?
A forum for all discussion and decision-making for all member states.
What is the General Assembly?
The condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
What was the first time the UN Used its international platform to speak out against a superpower?
This event was a reason why the Soviets were suspicious a towards the UN
What was the rejection of Mao’s PRC into the United Nations?
These countries were emerging from previous oppression and were in need of much support.
What were African countries?
The UN could only function as long as…
They weren’t interfering or impeding the US or the Soviet Union.
The world’s court for settling disputes and suits between countries.
What is the International Court of Justice?
The ceasefires reached in Kashmir and Cyprus.
What were two resolutions negotiated by the UN?
What the USSR was doing in 1950, in relation to the UN.
What is boycotting?
The balance of power in the UN began to shift away from the Americans.
At the end of the 60’s
As a result of ________, peacekeeping missions ended.
What is the end of détente?
A separate program run and funded by the UN.
What are: UNICTAD, UNICEF, UNDCP, UNEP, UNDP,UNIFEM, UNV, UNCDF, UNFPA, UNHCR, WFP, UNRWA, UN-HABITAT
To promote ‘equal rights for men and women and of nations large and small,’ maintain peace, and facilitate peaceful, diplomatic relations between nations.
What were the original aims of the UN, set out by the Allies?
The Soviet invasion of Hungary.
What is an example of the UN failing to act?
The United Nations tried to stay out of the Soviet’s and American’s…
Spheres of influence.
Superpower conflicts caused the UN to be _____ in its actions.
What is limited?