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| Main U.N. body charged with maintaining peace and settling disputes |
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| Site of the U.N. headquarters |
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| Deliberative body made up of representatives of all member nations |
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| The U.N.'s court, headquartered at The Hague |
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| the International Court of Justice (or the World Court) |
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| Main task of the United Nations |
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| to prevent war (or to keep peace) |
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| Agency that works to improve all people's health |
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| the World Health Organization (WHO) |
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| Important voting power held by each permanent member of the Security Council |
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| The most frequent user of the Security Council veto power |
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| Common acronym of the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
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| Agency concerned with children's health and welfare |
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| The five permanent members of the Security Council |
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| U.S., Russia, France, China, U.K. |
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| The clerical and administrative body of the U.N. |
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| Seventh Secretary-General, the second from Africa |
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| Third Secretary-General, the first from Asia |
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| Norwegian who was the first Secretary-General |
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| Sixth Secretary-General, the first from Africa |
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| American U.N. mediator between Arabs and Israelis; winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize |
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| The six official languages of the U.N. |
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| English, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic |
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| The U.N. High Commissioner helps these people. |
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| Large-scale combat forces were sent here in the early 1950s. |
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| The U.N arranged a cease-fire between these two Mideast belligerents in 1956. |
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| The Security Council arranged a cease-fire in 1967 to end this Arab-Israeli war. |
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| The U.N. arranged another cease-fire for this region in 1973. |
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| U.N. resolutions set the terms for settlement of this brief 1991 war. |
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| Small U.N. groups that supervise cease-fires or truces |
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| Mideast crisis of 1956 that created a U.N. emergency force |
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| The U.N. intervened when this former Communist nation in the Balkans split up. |
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| Unpaid peacekeeping charges brought the U.N. close to this in the 1960s. |
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| Major weakness of the League of Nations that the U.N. avoided |
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| only recommending (not initiating) action |
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| The U.N worked out a cease-fire between these parties in 1949. |
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| Israel and the Arab states |
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| U.N. peacekeepers went to this Caribbean island in 1995. |
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| Island nation that received a U.N. peacekeeping force in 1964 |
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| A U.N. force was sent to this Mideast nation in 1978. |
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| U.N. troops tried but failed to restore order in this East African nation in the 1990s. |
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| The U.N. lacks this for peacekeeping duties. |
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| Conflict between these groups on Cyprus caused U.N. intervention. |
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| How the U.N. pays for its special peacekeeping forces |
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| The Netherlands granted this country independence in 1949 due to U.N. efforts. |
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| African country that asked for U.N. troops to create stability in 1960 |
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| Association of the world's major oil-producing nations |
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| OPEC (Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries) |
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| Association that helps people harmed by natural disasters |
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| the International Red Cross |
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| Group that works to free political prisoners and to improve prison conditions |
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| Group that uses confrontation and intervention in its quest to protect the environment |
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| Free trade agreement among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada |
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| NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) |
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| Major body that supervises international trade |
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| the WTO (World Trade Organization) |
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| Group that promotes Arab solidarity and common interests |
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| U.S.-Latin American association formed in 1948 to promote cooperation |
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| the OAS (Organization of American States) |
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| Organization of major industrial democracies that meet for annual summits |
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| Common name of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
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| Association dedicated to achieving European cooperation and unity |
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| Medical group that treats victims in war-torn areas |
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| International agreement of 1975 to honor basic human rights |
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| Agency that promotes stable currencies and international monetary cooperation |
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| the IMF (International Monetary Fund) |
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| Association that promotes cooperation among Caribbean nations |
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| CARICOM (Caribbean Community and Common Market) |
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| Agreement to lower trade barriers worldwide |
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| GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) |
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| Group set up in 1963 to promote cooperation among African nations |
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| OAU (Organization of African Unity) |
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| Cooperative association of six Southeast Asian nations formed in 1967 |
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| ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) |
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| Group formed to promote trade across the Pacific Rim region |
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| APEC (Asian-Pacific Cooperation Group) |
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| Series of meetings in the 1970s on limiting nuclear arms |
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| SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks) |
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| U.S. demand to verify Soviet weapons reduction |
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| The Soviets said inspection was really an excuse for this. |
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| New frontier that is supposed to be off-limits to the arms race |
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| The United States deployed medium-range missiles here in 1983. |
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| No permanent nuclear weapons are to be installed off nations' coastlines in this place. |
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| Type of missiles limited by the SALT agreements |
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| ICBMs and submarine-launched missiles |
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| U.S. -Soviet agreement signed in 1979, but never approved by the U.S. Senate |
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| U.S.-U.S.S.R. 1988 treaty called for dismantling of all of these in Europe |
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| Neutral, demilitarized, nonnuclear continent |
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| Areas off-limits to nuclear testing, according to 1963 agreement |
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| the atmosphere, under water, and outer space |
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| Formal name of space-based defense system planned during Reagan's presidency |
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| SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) |
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| Iceland's capital; site of U.S.-Soviet summit conference |
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| Soviet and U.S. leaders who signed a weapons-reduction treaty in 1987 |
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| Focus of the U.S.-Soviet arms talks after the 1967 treaty |
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| U.N. body created to help regulate and reduce arms |
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| the Disarmament Commission |
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| Nonnuclear nations' 1968 agreement not to produce or receive nuclear weapons |
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| the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
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| Treaty to reduce nuclear arms, signed in 1991 after nine years of negotiating |
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| START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) |
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