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International Cooperation
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10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Main U.N. body charged with maintaining peace and settling disputes
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the Security Council
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Site of the U.N. headquarters
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New York City
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Deliberative body made up of representatives of all member nations
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the General Assembly
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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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Head of the Secretariat
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the Secretary-General
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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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a veto
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The most frequent user of the Security Council veto power
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the Soviet Union
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Common acronym of the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
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UNESCO
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Agency concerned with children's health and welfare
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UNICEF
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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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the Secretariat
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Seventh Secretary-General, the second from Africa
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Kofi Annan
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Third Secretary-General, the first from Asia
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U Thant
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Norwegian who was the first Secretary-General
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Trygve Lie
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Sixth Secretary-General, the first from Africa
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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American U.N. mediator between Arabs and Israelis; winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize
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Ralph Bunche
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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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refugees
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Large-scale combat forces were sent here in the early 1950s.
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Korea
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The U.N arranged a cease-fire between these two Mideast belligerents in 1956.
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Israel and Egypt
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The Security Council arranged a cease-fire in 1967 to end this Arab-Israeli war.
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the Six-Day War
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The U.N. arranged another cease-fire for this region in 1973.
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the Mideast
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U.N. resolutions set the terms for settlement of this brief 1991 war.
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the Persian Gulf War
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Small U.N. groups that supervise cease-fires or truces
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observers
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Mideast crisis of 1956 that created a U.N. emergency force
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the Suez Canal crisis
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The U.N. intervened when this former Communist nation in the Balkans split up.
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Yugoslavia
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Unpaid peacekeeping charges brought the U.N. close to this in the 1960s.
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bankruptcy
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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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Haiti
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Island nation that received a U.N. peacekeeping force in 1964
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Cyprus
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A U.N. force was sent to this Mideast nation in 1978.
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Lebanon
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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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Somalia
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The U.N. lacks this for peacekeeping duties.
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a permanent police force
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Conflict between these groups on Cyprus caused U.N. intervention.
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Greeks and Turks
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How the U.N. pays for its special peacekeeping forces
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special assessments
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The Netherlands granted this country independence in 1949 due to U.N. efforts.
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Indonesia
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African country that asked for U.N. troops to create stability in 1960
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the Congo
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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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Amnesty International
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Group that uses confrontation and intervention in its quest to protect the environment
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Greenpeace
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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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the Arab League
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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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the Group of Seven (G-7)
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Common name of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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the World Bank
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Association dedicated to achieving European cooperation and unity
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the European Union
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Medical group that treats victims in war-torn areas
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Doctors Without Borders
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International agreement of 1975 to honor basic human rights
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the Helsinki Agreement
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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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inspection
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The Soviets said inspection was really an excuse for this.
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spying
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New frontier that is supposed to be off-limits to the arms race
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outer space
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The United States deployed medium-range missiles here in 1983.
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Western Europe
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No permanent nuclear weapons are to be installed off nations' coastlines in this place.
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the seabed (ocean floor)
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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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SALT II
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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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medium-range missiles
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Neutral, demilitarized, nonnuclear continent
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Antarctica
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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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Nickname for SDI
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Star Wars
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Iceland's capital; site of U.S.-Soviet summit conference
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Reykjavik
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Soviet and U.S. leaders who signed a weapons-reduction treaty in 1987
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Gorbachev and Reagan
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Focus of the U.S.-Soviet arms talks after the 1967 treaty
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long-range missiles
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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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