United Nations

The primary function of the United Nations when it was conceived was ____.

• nuclear disarmament
• fellowshipping
• peacekeeping
• special elections

How many states are are members of the United Nations?

• 193
• 293
• 199
• 993

Which of the following is a goal of the United Nations?

• Preventing international wars
•  Punishing countries that don't have free elections
• Distributing the earth's natural resources equally among all countries 
•  Maintaining the United States' position as the world's number-one superpower

What is the main aim of the UN?

• Maintain peace and order

• Help countries get along

• Provide everyone what they need for good life

• All of the above

What event helped bring about the founding of the United Nations

• The end of World War 1

• The end of World War II

• The fall of the Berlin Wall

• The September 11 attacks

Put the steps the UN takes to address a world issue in the correct order. 

• A problem is introduced to the United Nations

• Once discussed the best ideas and proposals are selected to get widespread support. Then compromises are made through negotiation

• The problem is sent to the appropriate committee to be discussed

• Then a resolution that attempts to resolve the problem in question will be written

Match the following

• Security Council

• Includes 193 member states, meets annually, and debates issues on security and diplomacy.

• Economic and Social Council

• Debates and prosecutes international law violations.

• International Court of Justice

• Has 5 permanent members (Russia, France, China, UK, US),

  promotes peace through diplomacy or sanctions, resolutions carried out by UN Peacekeepers

• General Assembly

• Compiles reports, communicates between the different councils, Headed by the UN Secretary General

• Secretariat

• Works to improve standard of living and promote human rights, mainly assists developing countries

To indict someone means to 

• Exonerate them from guilt

• formally charge them with a crime

• find them guilty of a crime

• Acquit them of wrongdoing

The United Nations is organized into different committees or groups of people that come together to solve a set of problems or issues. All represented countries on the committee discuss the problem or issue according to their perspective.

Match the issue with the committee that would discuss it

•  The situation in Darfur, Sudan, where there is a civil war that kills many innocent people

• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

• When orphanages need clothing for children in North America

• United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

• Raising water levels due to higher temperatures and a change in climate in the Pacific Islands

• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Discuss the global issue your UN Committee had to solve (Chernobyl, Rwandan genocide, Syrian Refugees, Haitian Earthquake, Russian invasion of Ukraine.

1. Explain in detail the global issue (what happened, where did it happen, when did it happen)

2. Explain the impact on the people in the impacted nations

3. Explain the impact on the global community (the rest of the world)