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CommonLit

Common Lit: Hillary Clinton's Address to the U. N. World Conference on Women

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "First Lady Hillary Clinton's Address to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women" by First Lady Hillary Clinton, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion...
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: New York: United Nations Secretariat

For Students 9th - 10th
United Nations Secretariat (New York)
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Curated OER

Pbs News Hour Extra: United Nations: Photograph

For Students 9th - 10th
Photograph of the United Nations in New York City.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: The Us in Wwi: The League of Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the background to establishing the League of Nations, its role in facilitating peace negotiations, and why it ultimately failed to prevent World War II. Explains why the United States never joined it and how the United Nations...
Primary
Yale University

Yale Law School: Obligation of Egypt to Comply With the 1951 Resolution

For Students 9th - 10th
A statement made by the United States Representative to the United Nations, before the Security Council on March 25, 1954, asking the UN to remember their previous resolution (of 1951) which required Egypt to stop provoking Israel by...
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Address to the Un on Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of Arnold Schwarzenegger's address to the United Nations General Assembly on climate change on September 24, 2007.
Article
BBC

Bbc: Poverty and Gangs Curb Haiti Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
A February 2007 analysis of the challenges Haiti faced as the United Nations continued its efforts to bring order and stability to the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.
Primary
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: u.s. Position on Palestine

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Jewish Virtual Library provides the text of a statement made by Herschel V. Johnson, United States, The Deputy Representative to the United Nations, announces the United States' support of partitioning Palestine but...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of Israel

For Students 9th - 10th
The state of Israel came into formal existence on 14 May 1948. The United States recognized the new state on the same day, and the Soviet Union followed on 18 May. On 15 May 1948 the new state was invaded by the armies of Egypt, Iraq,...
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Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

World Aquaculture Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
This United Nations site offers information on the past, present, and future of aquaculture around the world.
Website
United Nations

Un News Centre: Home

For Students 9th - 10th
The United Nations provides daily news from around the world. Content also includes streaming audio news, fact sheets, UN documents, and much more.
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World Food Programme

Free Rice: Learn German Vocabulary and Give Free Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this game and learn new German vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: International Court of Justice

For Students 9th - 10th
The International Court of Justice, based in the Netherlands, is the international court of the United Nations. Learn about the purpose of this court, its history and its often controversial rulings.
Primary
Other

Gerald R. Ford Library: Gerald R. Ford's Address to 29th u.n. General Assembly

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum. Take a look at Ford's 1974 address to the General Assembly of the United Nations, which he delivered shortly after assuming the Presidency, and in which Ford humbly...
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Adlai Stevenson: Un Memorial Address for John F. Kennedy

For Students 9th - 10th
Video and audio of Adlai Stevenson's address to the United Nations General Assembly after President John F. Kennedy's death. It was delivered on November 26, 1963, in New York.
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Adlai Stevenson: Memorial Address for Eleanor Roosevelt

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text (PDF available) and audio of Stevenson's address to the United Nations General Assembly upon the death of Eleanor Roosevelt; it was delivered on November 9, 1962.
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US Department of State

Biographies of Secretaries of State: Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., 1900 1949

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of Edward Stettinius, Jr. whe served as Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, overseaing the end of World War II and the creation of the United Nations.
Primary
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: General Assembly Resolution 181

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of the United Nations resolution to partition Palestine, making an Arab state, a Jewish state, and an international Jerusalem.
Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Atoms for Peace"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [5:45] of President Eisenhower's address to the United Nations General Assembly entitled "Atoms for Peace" on December 8, 1953.
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Seymour Brody

Jewish Heroes in America: Arthur Goldberg

For Students 9th - 10th
Chronicles the life of former Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of Labor under JFK, Arthur Goldberg. In 1965, he resigned from the Supreme Court to become the United Nations Ambassador. He died in 1990 after leading a very active life...
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US Department of State

U.s.dept of State: Special Court for Sierra Leone

For Students 9th - 10th
A background look at the violent war crimes and legal violations committed in Sierra Leone which led to the creation of the United Nations War Crimes Court in January 2002. The Special Court started to deliver verdicts for the crimes in...
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A&E Television

History.com: How Eleanor Roosevelt Pushed for a Universal Declaration of Human Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
In the wake of World War II's horrors, Roosevelt saw the need to support refugees and affirm the right to education, shelter, and medical care. Roosevelt was there to speak about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document...
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Other

United Nations of Roma Victrix: The Julian Marriage Laws (Nos. 120 123, Etc.)

For Students 9th - 10th
In 18 BC, the Emperor Augustus turned his attention to social problems at Rome, one of which was adultery among the upper classes and that many couples who did marry failed to produce offspring because their romantic lives took...
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Other

United Nations of Roma Victrix: Roman Gladiator

For Students 9th - 10th
An account that describes who the gladiators were, how they fought and why, how were they trained, and more. It also provides some interesting facts about them such as that there were women gladiators.

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