Vocabulary
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What is the current number of UN member Nations of the UN General assembly?
Who won World War II.
Who were the Allies?
The name of the European country that was divided after World War II.
What is Germany?
The name of the international peacekeeping body created after World War II.
What is the United Nations?
an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
What is the European Union (EU)?
the main participants were Harry Truman, the U.S. President, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, both British Prime Ministers, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
The year World War II ended.
When was 1945?
The name of the Asian country that was divided after World War II.
What is Korea?
The UN has four main purposes:
What are To keep peace throughout the world; To develop friendly relations among nations; To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease, and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other's rights and freedoms; To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals
a military alliance that started in 1949 to protect member nations from the Soviet Union
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
The opening paragraph of this plan summarizes the objective: "To promote world peace and general welfare, national interest, and foreign policy of the United States through economic, financial, and other measures necessary. . ."
What is the Marshall Plan?
Stalin was concerned that the demilitarization and end of Fascist dictatorship in Germany and Italy would spread to Russia and other communist countries
What is the reason the Soviet Union created a Buffer zone in Eastern Europe?
This rather chilling relationship developed between the US and Soviet Union following the conclusion of WWII (1945)
What is the Cold War?
The 30 articles of the declaration affirm the inherent rights of all humans.
What are the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
the Soviet Union formalized this East European alliance which threatened the United States and Western Europe
What is the Warsaw Pact
The name of the international peacekeeping body created after World War I that failed to prevent World War II.
What is the League of Nations?
The country that had the most deaths during World War II.
What was the Soviet Union?
The name of the former Allied power that occupied much of Eastern Europe after World War II.
What is the Soviet Union?
The permanent members of the UN Security Council?
Who are China, Russia (Soviet Union), France, Great Britain, and the United States?
Within the UN, this body's decisions are binding
What is the Security Council ?
Discussions that started at this Conference were extended and finalized, such as dividing Germany into occupation zones, determining Poland’s borders, and defending the Allies against Japan
What is the Yalta Conference?
This person won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his work in Europe following WWII.
Who is George Marshall?
In 1946, Stalin blamed World War II on this and suggested that future wars were inevitable to stop capitalist imperialism.
What is "Capitalist imperialism"?
The United States never joined
What is a primary reason the League of Nations failed.
Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
Who are members of the Warsaw Pact?
The political divide between Western and Eastern Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
Germany was divided into four occupation zones, each controlled by an Ally.
What is a result of the Potsdam Conference?
To create a counter-balance to the NATO alliance
why did the Soviet Union decide to formalize the formation of the Warsaw Pact?
the combined effect of both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Nuremberg Trials
What is the establishment of international humanitarian law.
To lay the foundations for a world government that would replace existing nation-states and their militaries
What is NOT the purpose of the United Nations charter of 1945