International Organizations Test - 1

"The United Nations was not created to take humanity to heaven, but to save it from hell," said Dag Hammarskjold, the UN’s second Secretary-General.

Secondly, within the UN, the influence of the US is considerable. As the single largest contributor to the UN, the US has unmatched financial power.

The UN was founded as a successor to the League of Nations.

The G8, the Group of 8 is made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the USA, and the UK. The European Union is represented by the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council.

On 1945 October 30 India joins the UN.

With the disappearance of the Soviet Union, China is fast emerging as a great power.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), originally known as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children and mothers in countries that had been devastated by World War II.

1945 February: Yalta Conference of the ‘Big Three’ (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin) decides to organize a United Nations conference on the proposed world organization.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is an international organisation that sets the rules for global trade. This organisation was set up in 1995 as the successor to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) created after the Second World War.

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union, consisting of 27 member states that are subject to the obligations and the privileges of the membership. Every member state is part of the founding treaties of the union and is subjected to binding laws within the common legislative and judicial institutions. In order for the EU to adopt policies that concern defence and foreign affairs, all member states must agree unanimously.