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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 5
The United Nations
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Resolution
Veto
Implementation
Distinguish a resolution, a veto, and implementation. Why should a review of the United Nations separate whether a decision was adopted from whether it changed conditions?
Read the situation.
The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, and entered into force on October 24. It created an organization through which states could address peace, security, and other shared concerns. Its purposes are not evidence that every effort succeeds. Member governments retain interests, resources, and disagreements that shape what institutions can do.
02 Organize the information.
How much of the monitoring record is missing?
A fictional monitoring plan requires reports from 20 sites. Complete reports arrive from 15 sites. The remaining reports are missing, not evidence that nothing happened there.
How many sites have missing reports?
Answer: __________________ sites
Show the calculation, then explain what the result tells you in this model.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 5
What does the evidence show?
The United Nations
03 Follow the evidence.
A stronger effectiveness review
A report declares a fictional mission successful because its founding resolution passed.
Select all additional evidence that directly tests results beyond adoption of the founding resolution.
Monitoring records compare agreed objectives with actual changes over time.
Community accounts and independent observations test whether benefits reached affected people.
The founding resolution lists objectives but includes no evidence of later results.
A meeting record repeats the vote count that adopted the mission’s founding resolution.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
Revise the recommendation
Available evidence: a proposal passed; promised inspections took place at most sites; reported violations declined where records are complete; five site reports are absent.
Which conclusion is most defensible?
The available records show implementation and improvement in covered sites, but incomplete coverage limits a mission-wide claim.
Passage of the proposal proves every objective was achieved everywhere.
Missing reports prove that all cooperation failed.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a recommendation explaining the fictional vote, one implementation finding, one outcome finding, and a limit. State what additional evidence would strengthen an evaluation of international cooperation.