Global citizenship term 3 vocabulary

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

an international organization

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

a declaration adopted by the human rights

Question 3

violation

Answer 3

the action of violating something or someone

Question 4

refugee

Answer 4

a person who has been forced to leave their country

Question 5

Holocaust

Answer 5

a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar

Question 6

concentration camp

Answer 6

a place were large number of people , await for mass execution

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

a title given to the principal administrator of some organizations

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

an important division of the united states

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

the world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security,

Question 10

scapegoat

Answer 10

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

Question 11

persecuted

Answer 11

harass or annoy

Question 12

anti-semitic

Answer 12

discrimination of Jews

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

is a country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

A territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

Land on the west bank of the Jordan River,

Question 16

partition

Answer 16

the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour

Question 18

zionism

Answer 18

the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

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