Economic sanctions or embargoes are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals. Economic sanctions are a form of coercion that attempts
An undersupplied US gasoline station, closed during the oil embargo in 1973
The United Nations Security Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, and is the United Nation’s executive branch, having primary responsibility for the maintenance of internat
UN Security Council Chamber in New York
Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference in 1943
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945
Church House in London, where the first Security Council meeting took place on 17 January 1946