HIstory Term 3 Vocab

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

An intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945, to promote international co-operation.

Question 2

Declaration Of Human Rights

Answer 2

An international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

The action of violating someone or something

Question 4

Refugee

Answer 4

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Question 5

Holocaust

Answer 5

Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

Question 6

Concentration Camp

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Secretary Council

Answer 8

An important division of the United Nations that contains five permanent members — the United States, Britain, China, France, and Russia

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

The highest governing body in a religious denomination

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

A person or group that is made to bear blame for others.

Question 11

Persecuted

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Anti-Semetic

Answer 12

Hostility or prejudice against Jews

Question 13

Isreal

Answer 13

A republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean Sea: established in 1948

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

Also called the Holy Land the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in which most of the biblical narrative is located

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

An area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

A statement, issued by the British government on November 2, 1917, favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews but without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.

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

An organization founded in 1964 with the aim of creating a state for Palestinians

Question 20

Intifada

Answer 20

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