Beginning of Civilization and Religion | World War 1 | World War 2 | About the UN |
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When did religious history begin?
with the invention of writing around 5,220 years ago
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Who was the person who got killed starting World War 1?
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Who were the sides in World War 2
The Axis powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan
The Allies: France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. |
What was the name of the first Egyptian Secretary-General of the UN?
Boutros Boutros Ghaly
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What are the three types of religion?
Abrahamic, Dharmic, Taoist
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Who were the sides in World War 1?
The Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey.
The Allies: France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States |
What was the name of the strategy used by Germans to win the Second World War
Blitzkrieg
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When was the UN founded?
October 24, 1945.
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What was the first evidence of religion?
Belongings buried with the deceased as a belief in the resurrection.
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What did the war end with?
The Treaty of Versailles
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What phase in the Second World War was called The Phony War?
The first eight months in the war following France and
England declaring war on Germany, no military action was taken from both sides. |
How many member states are in the General Assembly?
193 member states
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Who was the person who brokered peace for the Egyptian empire and the Hittite empire?
the pharaoh Ramses the second
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What causes shell shock or PTSD postwar?
the combination of long periods of anticipation and
fear followed by extreme intense action and stress can have damaging effects on the nervous system. |
What was the name of the massive attack on The Soviet Union launched by Hitler?
Operation Barbarossa.
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What are the six committees of the General Assembly?
Disarmament and International Security Committee. Economic and Financial Committee. Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee. Special Political and Decolonization Committee. Administrative and Budgetary Committee. Legal Committee.
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For how long were the modern-day species of humans 'homo sapiens' around?
195 Thousand years
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What was the name of the treaty that demanded that Prisoners of War were to be treated humanely?
The Hague Convention in 1907
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When did the US join the Second World War and why?
Japanese fighter planes attacked Pearl Harbor on 7/12/1941 destroying naval vessels, battleships, and airplanes and killing 2,400 Americans. The next day, President Roosevelt declared war on Japan.
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When was the Uniting for Peace resolution adopted?
3 November 1950
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