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GC Vocab Term 3 Flashcards

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United Nations

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An international organization formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation

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Declaration of Human Rights

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declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 in Paris

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Violation

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The act of doing something that is not allowed by a law or rule

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Refugee

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Someone who has been forced to leave a country because of war or for religious or political reasons

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Holocaust

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An event or situation in which many people are killed and many things are destroyed especially by fire

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Concentration camp

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A camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined

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Secretary General

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a principal administrative officer

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Security Council

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A permanent council of the United Nations with primary responsibility for maintaining peace and security

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General Assembly

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The highest governing body in a religious denomination (as the United Presbyterian Church)
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the supreme deliberative body of the United Nations

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scapegoat

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A person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done

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Persecuted

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To treat (someone) cruelly or unfairly especially because of race or religious or political beliefs

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Anti-semitic

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Feeling or showing hatred of Jewish people

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Israel

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the Jewish people

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Palestine

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Ancient region SW Asia bordering on E coast of the Mediterranean & extending E of Jordan River

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West Bank

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Area Middle East W of Jordan River; occupied by Israel since 1967 with parts having been transferred to Palestinian administration since 1993

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Partition

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The division of a country into separate political units

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Balfour Declaration

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Was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community

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zionism

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Political support for the creation and development of a Jewish homeland in Israel

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Palestine Liberation Organization

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The PLO is committed to a compromise by which Israel would exchange portions of the Occupied Territories, areas including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank that Israel took from the Arabs in the Six-Day War.

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Intifada

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An armed uprising of Palestinians against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip

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