Global Citizenship Flashcards

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United Nations

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Is an intergovernmental organization establish Oct 24,1945

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Declaration of Human Rights

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The universal declaration of human right was adopted by the United nations

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violation

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the action of wrong doing

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refugee

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a person who is forced out of their country

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5
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Holocaust

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The massacre of over 6 million jews

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concentration camp

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Are camps for POW where they are kept and they work.

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Secretary General

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a title given to the principal administrator of some organizations, most notably the United Nations.

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Security Council

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s the primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace. Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations.i

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General Assembly

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is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation.

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scapegoat

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a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it

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persecuted

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subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.

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anti-semitic

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Antisemitism (also spelled Anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group.

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Israel

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a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May

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Palestine

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Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.

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West Bank

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an area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel; formerly held by Jordan.

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16
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partition

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(especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

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Balfour Declaration

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was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

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zionism

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a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.

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Palestine Liberation Organization

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an organization founded in 1964 with the aim of creating a state for Palestinians; it recognized the state of Israel in 1993 and Israel granted Palestinians autonomy in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Abbreviation:

20
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intifada

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the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.