The United Nations Security Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, and is the United Nations' 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
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China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia. It is divided into 33 province-level divisions, including two special administrative regions. Beijing is the capital, while
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…the UN's longest-running peacekeeping missions. On 25 October 1971, over US opposition but with the support of many Third World nations, the mainland People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China in the Security Council seat; the vote was widely seen as a sign of waning US influence in the organization. With an…
A set of Western Zhou-era ritual bronzes, c. 1000 BCE
Soldier statues of the Terracotta Army, buried alongside Qin Shi Huang c. 210 BCE
Section from the Song-era landscape painting, Along the River During the Qingming Festival, early 1100s
A Ming dynasty section of the Great Wall of China