True or False: Current Events & Society

Explication : TRUE! The United Nations was created on October 24, 1945, a few months after the end of World War II, to maintain international peace.

Explication : FALSE! The 6 founding members of the EEC in 1957 were France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Spain only joined in 1986.

Explication : TRUE! The ordinance of April 21, 1944 granted French women the right to vote. They voted for the first time in the 1945 municipal elections.

Explication : FALSE! Russia was expelled from the G8 in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea. The G7 currently includes the US, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Italy, and Canada.

Explication : TRUE! TikTok is developed by ByteDance, a Chinese technology company founded in Beijing in 2012.

Explication : FALSE! The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded in 1851 in New York. It is one of the most influential newspapers in the world.

Explication : TRUE! The WHO is a specialized agency of the United Nations, created in 1948 and based in Geneva.

Explication : FALSE! The SMIC (Interprofessional Growth Minimum Wage) was established in France in 1970, replacing the SMIG created in 1950.

Explication : TRUE! In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook Inc. became Meta Platforms, Inc., to reflect the company's ambition around the metaverse.

Explication : FALSE! Some EU countries like Sweden, Poland, Hungary, or Denmark keep their own national currency.

Explication : TRUE! Unlike other Nobel Prizes awarded in Stockholm, the Nobel Peace Prize is presented in Oslo by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Explication : FALSE! UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a UN agency, based in Paris since its creation in 1945.

Explication : TRUE! The Paris Agreement was adopted on December 12, 2015 at COP21, with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

Explication : FALSE! The United Kingdom officially left the European Union on January 31, 2020, after the June 2016 referendum.

Explication : TRUE! Founded in 1997, Netflix rented DVDs by mail before transforming into a streaming platform in 2007.

Explication : FALSE! The Security Council has 5 permanent members with veto power: United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom.

Explication : TRUE! The Red Cross was founded in Geneva in 1863 by Henry Dunant. Its emblem is the reverse of the Swiss flag.

Explication : FALSE! Le Monde was founded on December 18, 1944 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, at the request of General de Gaulle.

Explication : TRUE! The National Assembly consists of 577 deputies elected by direct universal suffrage for a 5-year term.

Explication : FALSE! The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN on December 10, 1948. In 1789, it was the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.