The United Nations was created to succeed which earlier organisation?

The Permanent Court of ArbitrationCorrect answerYour answerThe Concert of EuropeCorrect answerYour answerThe International Labour OrganizationCorrect answerYour answerThe League of NationsCorrect answerYour answer

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Correct answer: D

The League of Nations was set up after the First World War and had failed to prevent the second.
The United Nations was designed to replace it, with a Security Council able to take binding decisions — the power the League most obviously lacked.
The League was formally wound up in 1946, after the United Nations was already in operation.

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The International Labour Organization is the trap worth knowing: it began under the League in 1919 and survived the League's collapse, so it is older than the United Nations rather than a creation of it.

Concept: The organisation the United Nations replaced
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