The UN: history and functions

The League of Nations was an international organization created after …

• World War II

• World War I

• Philippine-American War

• South African War

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The main architect of the League of Nations was …

• Lord Robert Cecil

• The President of the United States Woodrow Wilson

• Raymond Poincaré

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Where was the headquarters of the League of Nations located?

• Washington D.C.

• Versailles, France

•  Geneva, Switzerland

• Luxembourg

The aims of the League of Nations were to stop war, to make the world a better place to live and ...

•   To negotiate the terms of peace with Germany

•   To encourage trade

•    To encourage disarmament

   

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The Council of the League of Nations consisted of permanent and non-permanent members. The permanent members were …  .

• Germany, the USA, the British Empire, France,Italy

• Japan, the British Empire, France, Italy

   

• the USA, Italy, Germany

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Which countries were also given the prerogative of permanent membership of the Council of the League of Nations?

• The USA, the USSR

• Germany, the USSR

• The USA, Germany

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Which country did Italy invade in 1935?

• Somalia

• Nigeria

• Kuwait

• Ethiopia

What effect did the League’s failures in Manchuria and Ethiopia have?

•    More countries joined

• The USA left the organization

• They made the League weaker

•   The League strengthened its Army

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What was the entity that was the precursor to the United Nations?

• The Allied Powers

• The League of Nations

• the Axis Powers

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When was the United Nations established?

•   1941

• 1945

• 1919

• 1920