HIstory Term 3 Vocab Flashcards
United Nations
An intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945, to promote international co-operation.
Declaration Of Human Rights
An international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.
Violation
The action of violating someone or something
Refugee
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Holocaust
Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
Concentration Camp
A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities
Secretary General
A title given to the principal administrator of some organizations, most notably the United Nations.
Secretary Council
An important division of the United Nations that contains five permanent members — the United States, Britain, China, France, and Russia
General Assembly
The highest governing body in a religious denomination
Scapegoat
A person or group that is made to bear blame for others.
Persecuted
Subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
Anti-Semetic
Hostility or prejudice against Jews
Isreal
A republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean Sea: established in 1948
Palestine
Also called the Holy Land the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in which most of the biblical narrative is located
West Bank
An area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel
