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Balance of Global Power

Balance of Global Power. United Nations (1945 – present) After WWII, the United Nations replaced the League and inherited a number of its agencies and organizations. . UN Purpose & Structure UN History. UN Issues & Controversies Organization & Functions of the UN.

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Balance of Global Power

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  1. Balance of Global Power

  2. United Nations (1945 – present) After WWII, the United Nations replaced the League and inherited a number of its agencies and organizations. UN Purpose & Structure UN History

  3. UN Issues & Controversies Organization & Functions of the UN

  4. UN in Action: Creation of Israel Both Jews and Palestinians make historic claims to Palestine By 1947, Britain turned the problem of Palestine over to the UN and announced that the British mandate in Palestine would end in 1948. The UN proposed dividing Palestine into two states, one Jewish, one Arab. Jerusalem would be UN-administered. Palestinian Arabs and Arab nations rejected the proposal. Within days, fighting between Jewish and Arab residents had broken out. The Jewish military forces were better armed and organized than the Arab forces, and soon secured control over most of the territory allotted to the Jewish state by the UN plan.

  5. In May 1948, when the British left Palestine, Jewish leaders proclaimed the State of Israel. Neighboring Arab states promptly invaded. When the war ended in 1949, the region once known as Palestine was divided into three parts, each under separate political control.

  6. Video: Israel Moves Closer to UN Membership (:49)

  7. The United Nations Today The UN: It's Your World (6:52)

  8. Cold War Alliances Cold War - struggle of U.S., Soviet Union using means short of war In 1949, U.S., Canada, West European countries form NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), a defensive military alliance. In 1955, Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite nations sign Warsaw Pact alliance.

  9. Issues before the UN today relating to balance of power? Model UN (3:30)

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