Organizations of the UN & The Cold War

Question 1

The ___ ____ is made up of all the members of the United Nations.

Answer 1

General Assembly

Question 2

Each member of the General Assembly has how many votes?

Answer 2

one

Question 3

The General Assembly can make _____ but cannot give orders to act _____.

Answer 3

recommendations, militarily

Question 4

The ____ ____ is made of 15 members.

Answer 4

Security Council

Question 5

The 5 permanent members of the Security Council

Answer 5

U.S., Britain, France, Russia, and People’s Republic of China

Question 6

How are the other members entered into the Security Council?

Answer 6

elected for 2-Only the ____ ____ can order the UN to take action.year terms

Question 7

Only the ____ _____ can order the UN to take action.

Answer 7

Security Council

Question 8

In order to take action, what must the Security Council do?

Answer 8

9 of the 15 members must vote for action. All 5 of the permanent members also must vote in favor of the action. Any one of the permanent members can vote no and veto the action.

Question 9

This meets at The Hague in the Netherlands

Answer 9

International Court of Justice

Question 10

This is made up of 15 judges who decide cases by majority vote. When nations submit their cases to the court, they agree to accept the decision.

Answer 10

International Court of Justice

Question 11

The _____ consists of the _____ _______ and his or her staff. They are responsible for running the UN.

Answer 11

Secretariat, secretary general

Question 12

The ____ is appointed by the _____ _____ for a five-year term.

Answer 12

secretary general

Question 13

The Cold War was a struggle between the ____ ____ of the West, such as the ____, ____ & ____ and the nations allied with the former (meaning it no longer exists) _____ _____.

Answer 13

democratic nations, U.S., Great Britain & France, Soviet Union

Question 14

The Soviet Union was ruled by a _____ dictatorship (which has never been successful in history yet people still try it)

Answer 14

Communist

Question 15

What is communism

Answer 15

all the people share in the nation’s wealth & government (sounds good but never works)

Question 16

The dictators and the ________ party tightly controlled every part of the Soviet people’s lives.

Answer 16

Communist

Question 17

The U.S. and its allies in the ____ ______ ______ Organization resisted the Communists

Answer 17

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Your Grandfather was Captain of a ship, the Stephen W. Groves, that was the U.S. representative of NATO. Pretty cool stuff.

Question 18

The Soviets response to NATO was the forming of the _____ _____ with their allies.

Answer 18

Warsaw Pact

Question 19

Both the U.S. & The Soviet Union built tons of _____ weapons and pointed them at each other.

Answer 19

nuclear

Question 20

The Cold War lasted from the end of WWII until _____

Answer 20

1989

Question 21

What happened when the cold war ended?

Answer 21

The Berlin Wall was torn down and Soviet communism ended. (I still have a newspaper from when this happened if you want to see it. I was in high school. It was a HUGE event in history)