A. For questions 1-5 choose the answer A, B or C, which you think fits best according to the text.

1. ECOSOC is:

A. One of the six principal organs of the United Nations and it is responsible for the coordination of the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, its functional commissions and five regional commissions.

B. Multinational corporation, which has influence on the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, its functional commissions and five regional commissions.

C. The main structure of the UN which controls the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues and for formulating policy recommendations addressed to Member States and the United Nations system.

2. What power does ECOSOC has?

A. power to accept new independent countries to the UN

B. power to assist the preparations and organization of major international conferences in the economic and social and related fields and to facilitate a coordinated follow-up to these conferences.

C. power to choose the Chairman of the UN, appoint the heads of bodies of the UN.

3. The Headquarter of ECOSOC is situated in:

A. USA, New-York

B. Geneva

C. both variants

4. What does the ECOSOC follow in its work?

A. ECOSOC consults with academics, business sector representatives and more than 3,200 registered non-governmental organizations.

B. The Council holds a four-week substantive session each July, alternating between New York and Geneva.

C. both variants

5. What are the terms of being the member of the Primary organ of the UN?

A. 3-4 years

B. 3 years

C. 1,5 year

B. Fill each of the spaces in the sentences with the appropriate words from box.

Week 6 (2hours)

Theme: NATO

Aims and Objectives:to develop furtherstudents skills in reading, speaking, analyzing international documents and newspaper articles, to improve their listening skills and to practise grammar.

A. Comment on: “By pooling the resources, capabilities and forces of many nations, the NATO alliance can keep peace and security more efficiently, effectively and in more places than one nation can alone. This idea, with Europe recovering from World War II and the rising power of a communist Soviet Union, is why NATO was created.” These terms represent dramatic ideas and events that occurred after World War II and set the stage for the formation of the NATO alliance in 1949.

1. The Truman Doctrine

2. The Marshall Plan

3. Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech

4. The Berlin airlift

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 as a response to the threat of Soviet invasion of Western Europe after World War II. NATO was, and still is, a European defense coalition, an alliance of countries pledged to ensure the freedom and security of all member countries.

The Soviet Union occupied the nations of Eastern Europe as its army moved toward Berlin to bring an end to Nazi rule of Germany in 1945. After the war ended, Great Britain and the United States demanded that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pulls his troops out of Eastern Europe. Fearing another attack by Germany, Stalin kept his troops in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and Communist governments were imposed on these nations. At this time in history, many people believed that the Soviet Union was determined to impose its style of communism on the entire world. The Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe seemed to give support to this suspicion. American foreign policy under President Truman and later presidential administrations was shaped to act as a counterbalance to the possibility of a Soviet takeover in Europe and communist revolution in other places in the world. This effort to stop Soviet expansion and the spread of communism was known as the policy of containment. A. The Truman Doctrine (1947) was proposed by President Harry Truman after World War II to prevent communism from spreading to Greece and Turkey. The doctrine gave financial support ($400 million) to both countries in order to reduce the threat of communist insurrection.

B. The Marshall Plan (1947) was approved by the U.S. Congress and allotted $7 billion to the nations of Western Europe in an effort to prevent the rise of communist parties there. The Marshall Plan helped establish close ties between Western Europe and the United States.

C. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain"speech (1946) illustrated the division within Europe at that time. Following World War II, Europe had 103

clearly been divided into two political and economic systems supported by two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet Union occupied countries in Eastern Europe (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria) after the war, imposing Communist rule over them. The western democracies of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium, along with allies such as Canada and the United States, were in opposition to the spread of Communism in Europe. In his speech, Churchill described the conflict this way: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Churchill was outlining the ideological conflict between Soviet Communism and democratic capitalism. D. The Berlin airlift (1948) was a response to a Soviet attempt to cut off all supplies to democratic West Berlin. The Allies responded with 321 days of air support to the people of West Berlin, flying in food and medicine in spite of the Soviet land blockade. Moderate a class discussion on the motivations for the NATO powers to join the alliance as well as the motivations of the Soviet Union to occupy and control the Warsaw Pact nations. Discuss what role NATO played in global politics during the Cold War. Did it carry out this role effectively? Did NATO's role in global politics change following the fall of the Soviet Union? “By pooling the resources, capabilities and forces of many nations, the NATO alliance can keep peace and security more efficiently, effectively and in more places than one nation can alone. This idea, with Europe recovering from World War II and the rising power of a communist Soviet Union, is why NATO was created.” These terms represent dramatic ideas and events that occurred after World War II and set the stage for the formation of the NATO alliance in 1949.

1. The Truman Doctrine

2. The Marshall Plan

3. Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech

4. The Berlin airlift

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 as a response to the threat of Soviet invasion of Western Europe after World War II. NATO was, and still is, a European defense coalition, an alliance of countries pledged to ensure the freedom and security of all member countries.

The Soviet Union occupied the nations of Eastern Europe as its army moved toward Berlin to bring an end to Nazi rule of Germany in 1945. After the war ended, Great Britain and the United States demanded that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pulls his troops out of Eastern Europe. Fearing another attack by Germany, Stalin kept his troops in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and Communist governments were imposed on these nations. At this time in history, many people believed that the Soviet Union was determined to impose its style of communism on the entire world. The Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe seemed to give support to this suspicion. American foreign policy under President Truman and later presidential administrations was shaped to act as a counterbalance to the possibility of a Soviet takeover in Europe and communist revolution in other places in the world. This effort to stop Soviet expansion and the spread of communism was known as the policy of containment.

A. The Truman Doctrine (1947) was proposed by President Harry Truman after World War II to prevent communism from spreading to Greece and Turkey. The doctrine gave financial support ($400 million) to both countries in order to reduce the threat of communist insurrection.

B. The Marshall Plan (1947) was approved by the U.S. Congress and allotted $7 billion to the nations of Western Europe in an effort to prevent the rise of communist parties there. The Marshall Plan helped establish close ties between Western Europe and the United States.

C. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain"speech (1946) illustrated the division within Europe at that time. Following World War II, Europe had 103

clearly been divided into two political and economic systems supported by two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet Union occupied countries in Eastern Europe (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria) after the war, imposing Communist rule over them. The western democracies of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium, along with allies such as Canada and the United States, were in opposition to the spread of Communism in Europe. In his speech, Churchill described the conflict this way: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Churchill was outlining the ideological conflict between Soviet Communism and democratic capitalism. D. The Berlin airlift (1948) was a response to a Soviet attempt to cut off all supplies to democratic West Berlin. The Allies responded with 321 days of air support to the people of West Berlin, flying in food and medicine in spite of the Soviet land blockade. Moderate a class discussion on the motivations for the NATO powers to join the alliance as well as the motivations of the Soviet Union to occupy and control the Warsaw Pact nations. Discuss what role NATO played in global politics during the Cold War. Did it carry out this role effectively? Did NATO's role in global politics change following the fall of the Soviet Union?

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