united nations

     

The Unite Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. The UN was founded in 1945 to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between nations and to provide a platform for dialogue.

Trivia about united nations

  • In the 1940s Franklin Roosevelt coined this term in reference to all the countries allied against the Axis powers
  • On June 26, 1945 delegates of 50 countries signed a charter in San Francisco establishing this body
  • In 1974 this organization granted the PLO observer status & suspended South Africa
  • Boosting membership to 54, Afghanistan, Iceland & Sweden all joined this organization on November 11, 1946
  • The International Monetary Fund, established in 1945, is a specialized agency of this organization
  • Nikita Khrushchev was a shoe-in... make that a shoe off at a meeting of this organization on Oct. 12, 1960
  • In 1949 Harry Truman traveled to New York to help lay a cornerstone for this body
  • Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, was the 1st woman president of this organization's general assembly
  • In December 1996 Kofi Annan of Ghana was elected secretary-general of this organization
  • After the League of Nations dissolved in 1946, their Geneva headquarters went to this group
  • Its New York City headquarters was dedicated October 24, 1949
  • Between Oct. 1946 & Oct. 1949, this international organization held its meetings in Flushing, N.Y.
  • Materials from all over the world were used to build the assembly hall in this NYC complex
  • In the early '90s poet Kofi Awoonor was Ghana's ambassador to this
  • East & West Germany & the Bahamas were admitted to this international organization September 18, 1973
  • On October 24 this organization came into existence with the ratification of its charter by 29 countries
  • This organization was formally born Oct. 24, 1945 with Soviet ratification of the charter
  • Around this organization's HQ on the East River from 42nd to 48th, watch out for double-parked diplomats
  • In 1946 Belgian Paul-Henri Spaak became the first president of this organization's General Assembly
  • In September 1990 Liechtenstein became a full member of this international organization
  • On October 2, 1979 at this New York site, he asked, "Are the children to receive the arms race from us?"
  • In December 1994 the Pacific island nation of Palau became its 185th member
  • As U.S. ambassador to this organization in 1971, Bush worked to keep Nationalist China from expulsion
  • In 1999 this organization oversaw a referendum on independence for East Timor
  • This body's peacekeeping forces were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988
  • "Relax, said the nightman" of S.F.'s Fairmont Hotel to the men who chartered this world group there in 1945
  • To honor peace, Jean Verame painted some 4 mi. of Sinai Desert boulders blue; this intl. org. donated the paint
  • Before he was president George H.W. Bush served as U.S. ambassador to this organization from 1971 to 1973
  • Oppie helped draft 1946's Acheson-Lilienthal Plan, which offered to have this body oversee world atomic research
  • The 1969 Nobel Peace Prize went to the Intl. Labor Organization, an agency of this body
  • In 1961 JFK invited our ambassador to this to attend the cabinet meetings
  • Franco's regime was ostracized for its Fascist policies by this organization formed in October 1945
  • You'll feel like a diplomat when you eat in the delegates' dining room in this international organization's HQ
  • In 1945 Virginia Gildersleeve was the only female U.S. delegate to the conference that drafted this charter
  • In 1995 Pres. Clinton urged this 50-year-old organization to trim its bloated bureaucracy
  • 26 nations united to draw up a Jan. 1, 1942 declaration that led the way for the creation of this in 1945
  • In 1997 this organization resumed its stamp series depicting flags of new member countries
  • In 1949 Pres. Truman was on hand when the cornerstone was laid for this organization's NYC headquarters
  • Over 200 people from around the world made speeches for this organization's 50th anniversary
  • There's a Ralph J. Bunche Park across the street from this organization's New York City headquarters
  • The blue field of Somalia's flag was influenced by the flag of this organization
  • An ardent spokesman for small countries, Herbert Vere Evatt helped write the charter for this organization
  • The flag seen here is used all over the world by this organization
  • Kids can be the ambassador from Kenya or Bulgaria in the "model" version of this organization founded in 1945
  • At its charter conference in 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune was a consultant for interracial affairs
  • It's this organization's 39-story headquarters
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace Hotel in San Francisco) The Garden Court was the site of the official 1945 banquet honoring the opening session of this organization