Chapter 20 Flashcards
01) The United Nations Charter makes reference only to state rights.
a. True
b. False
False
02) The UN Charter specifically outlines the role of peacekeeping in the international system.
a. True
b. False
b. False
) The cold war and the decolonization process discouraged more active involvement by the UN within states.
a. True
b. False
a. True
04) The UN Charter essentially re-affirmed the principle of sovereignty.
a. True
b. False
a. True
05) Promoting development is an important UN goal in iteself
a. True
b. False
a. True
06) How many states signed the UN Charter when it was first established in 1945?
a. 39
b. 51
c. 191
d. 72
b. 51
07) Which key section of the UN Charter deals with ‘Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression’?
a. The Preamble
b. Article 99
c. Chapter VI
d. Chapter VII
d. Chapter VII
08) Which nation is not a member of the permanent five who hold a veto on the Security Council?
a. The United States
b. China
c. Germany
d. France
c. Germany
09) Which body is not a principal organ of the United Nations system?
a. World Bank
b. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
c. Trusteeship Council
d. International Court of Justice
a. World Bank
10) The __________ serves as the main UN judicial organ to settle disputes between states?
a. International Criminal Court (ICC)
b. International Court of Justice (ICJ)
c. Security Council
d. Peacekeeping Operations and Missions
b. International Court of Justice (ICJ)
11) Who was the Secretary-General of the UN who outlined a more ambitious agenda for the UN in his An Agenda for Peace (1992)?
a. Dag Hammarskjôld
b. Javier Pèrez de Cuèllar
c. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
d. Kofi Annan
c. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
12) What concept involves confidence-building measures, fact-finding, and preventive deployment of UN authorized forces?
a. Peacemaking
b. Peacekeeping
c. Post-conflict peacebuilding
d. Preventive diplomacy
d. Preventive diplomacy
13) What UN body was tasked with overseeing the transition of territories from colonial status to self-government or independence?
a. The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
b. The Security Council
c. The Trusteeship Council
d. The World Bank Group
c. The Trusteeship Council
) The commission on intervention and state sovereignty advanced what notion?
a. the responsibility to protect
b. peacekeeping
c. collective security
d. non-intervention
a. the responsibility to protect
15) What Security Council resolution threatened serious consequences if Saddam Hussein failed to reveal his weapons of mass destruction to the team of UN inspectors?
a. SC Res 688
b. SC Res 1441
c. SC Res 678
d. SC Res 1199
b. SC Res 1441
