 World Bank - a bank founded in1994 by the United States and 43 other nations in order to provide loans to help countries recover from World War II and develop their economies
 United Nations (UN) - an international organization founded in 1945 to further the causes of peace, prosperity, and human rights.
 Four Freedoms - essential freedoms identified by FDR in a 1941 speech and later incorporated into the UN charter: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
 Universal Declaration of Human Rights - a document adopted by the United Nations in 1948 affirming basic human rights, including the right to life, liberty, and equality before the law, as well as freedom of religion, expression, and assembly.
 Nuremberg War Crimes Trials- a series of trials in 1945 and 1946 In Nuremberg, Germany, in which an international military tribunal convicted former Nazi leaders of war crimes.
 GI Bill of Rights – a law passed in 1944 to provide federal funds to help returning GI’s make the transition to civilian.
 Geneva Conventions – the 1954 agreement between France and the Viet Minh to split Vietnam along the 17 th parallel and to schedule national elections in the 1956 to reunify Vietnam.
 International Criminal Court (ICC) – a permanent international tribunal established in 1998, with the power to try people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime aggression. More than half of the world’s nations, including the United States, have not joined the ICC.

1. TYPE OF DOCUMENT (Check one):
___ Newspaper
___ Letter
___ Patent
___ Memorandum
___ Map
___ Telegram
___ Press release
___ Report
___ Advertisement
___ Congressional record
___ Census report
___ Other
2. UNIQUE PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF THE DOCUMENT (Check one or more):
___ Interesting letterhead
___ Handwritten
_X_ Typed
___ Seals
___ Notations
___ "RECEIVED" stamp
___ Other
3. DATE(S) OF DOCUMENT:
June 26, 1945
4. AUTHOR (OR CREATOR) OF THE DOCUMENT:
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POSITION (TITLE):
United Nations Charter
5. FOR WHAT AUDIENCE WAS THE DOCUMENT WRITTEN?
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6. DOCUMENT INFORMATION (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.)
A. List three things the author said that you think are important:
The United Nations was established after World War II in an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social and humanitarian problem. Its forerunner was the League of Nations, an organization conceived under similar circumstances during the First World War and established in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles "to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security." The League of Nations, however, ceased its activities after it failed to prevent
the Second World War.
B. Why do you think this document was written?
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C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document.
“The United Nations was established after World War II in an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic,
social and humanitarian problem.”
D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written:
Today, nearly 200 nations are members of the United Nations.
E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document:
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