Roots of the Modern World | Set 5
1. ……………started functioning from 24th October, 1945.
2. Headquarters of UNO was at………………...
3. The Security Council is the executive body of the ……………
4. The seat of The International Court of Justice of the U.N.O. is at ……………..in
Netherlands.
5. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established
in…………….
6. Headquarters of UNICEF is………………….
7. World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in April 1948 with its headquarters
at……………..
8. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was
founded in 1946 with its headquarters at………………...
9. 1941 - The US president Roosevelt and the ……………Prime Minister Churchill issued
declaration called the Atlantic Charter.
10. The UNICEF was established in …………. with its headquarters at New York.
11. November 1946 UNESCO was established with its head quarters at……………..
12. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was set up as the world´s "Atoms for
Peace" organization in …………..within the United Nations family.
13. The term ‘Cold War’ was first coined by Bernard Baruch, an ……………statesman and
later popularized by Professor Lippmann.
14. The Truman Doctrine was announced by President Truman in the American Congress
on March 12,…………..
15. Who declared that the United States must adopt a policy to support free peoples who
were resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures?
16. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in ………….on April 4, 1949.
17. ……………….., a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of "containment,"
the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war with the Soviet Union.
18. Harry S. Truman was the president of ………………..
19. Cominform was founded in ………………….
20. The initial seat of Cominform was located in …………….(then the capital of the
Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia).
21. After the expulsion of Yugoslavia from Cominform in June…………….., the seat was
moved to Bucharest, Romania.
22. The Second World War ended in …………. with the defeat of Nazi Germany.
23. The Berlin Wall fell in November …………………
24. Germany was reunified on 3 October………………..
25. Under the guidance of Soviet Russia, a founding meeting of the Chinese Communist
party (CCP) was held in ……….in July 1921.
26. On October 1, …………., Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation
of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
27. South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was formed in………….
28. Which was the Headquarters of SEATO?
29. SEATO was formally disbanded in…………..
30. The Warsaw Pact officially disbanded in March and July of …………. following the
dissolution of the Soviet Union.
31. The main purpose of the …………Pact was to prevent communist incursions and foster
peace in the Middle East.
32. ………………. was renamed the Central Treaty Organization, or CENTO, in 1959 after Iraq
pulled out of the Pact.
33. CENTO was formally disbanded in…………….
34. In…………, the Suez Canal became the focus of a major world conflict.
35. In the late 19th century ………….arose as a nationalist and political movement aimed at
restoring the land of Israel as a national home for the Jewish people.
36. The first Zionist congress took place in 1897 in Basel under the guidance of
……………..journalist Theodor Herzl.
37. Who wrote the book “The Jewish State”?
38. The PLO was created in …………………
39. By 1967 the ………………had decided that their primary goal was the destruction of the
state of Israel.
40. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on 25th
December,…………..
41. …………….led the USSR from 1962-1982.
42. In 1894 ……………..founded the Chinese Revival society.
43. The Boxer Rebellion in China was in ………………
44. The Manchu dynasty was overthrown in a revolution of …………….
45. Japan captured Manchuria and withdrew from the League of Nations in …………...
46. In 1941 …………..attacked the American Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
47. In 1949 Indonesia becomes independent from …………rule.