EARLY PEACE EFFORTS
This international organization was created after WWI to maintain peace, but failed to prevent WWII.
What was the League of Nations?
Signed in June 1941, this declaration pledged Allied solidarity against aggression.
What was the Declaration of St. James Palace?
The UN officially came into existence on this date.
What was October 24, 1945?
This organ was suspended in 1994 after all Trust Territories gained self-government or independence
What is the Trusteeship Council?
Each Member State in the General Assembly has this number of votes
What is one?
This war’s devastation motivated people to create the League of Nations.
What was World War I?
Issued by Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941, this document outlined principles for a better world.
What was the Atlantic Charter?
This 1944 meeting in Washington, D.C. proposed the basic structure of the United Nations.
What was the Dumbarton Oaks Conference?
This organ, located at the Peace Palace in The Hague, is the principal judicial organ of the UN.
What is the International Court of Justice?
The Security Council has this many members in total.
What is 15?
The League of Nations officially disbanded in this year.
What was 1946?
Signed in October 1943, this document recognized the need for a general international organization.
What was the Moscow Declaration?
The UN Charter was written and signed during this 1945 conference in California.
What was the San Francisco Conference?
This is the main deliberative organ of the UN, where all 193 Member States meet every September in New York.
What is the General Assembly?
The Security Council presidency rotates every this amount of time.
What is every month?
This major weakness of the League of Nations made it unable to prevent wars.
What was the lack of its own armed forces?
At this December 1943 conference, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin planned Allied war strategy and expressed hope for lasting peace.
What was the Tehran Conference?
According to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, the UN would have this many original Security Council members.
What was 11?
This organ coordinated economic, social, and environmental work and has 54 members elected by the GA.
What is the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)?
The International Court of Justice is unique because it is the only UN organ NOT located in this city.
What is New York?
This 1919 event led to the adoption of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
What was the Paris Peace Conference?
Signed on January 1, 1942, this declaration gave the Allies their collective name during WWII.
What was the Declaration by the United Nations?
At this February 1945 conference in Crimea, the “Big Three” agreed to divide Germany into four zones.
What was the Yalta Conference?
This organ has primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security.
What is the Security Council?
The Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council for this length of term.
What is five years?