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Term 3 Flashcards

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United Nations

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Intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.

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Declarations of Human Rights

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A declaration that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, that documents history of human rights.

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Violation

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Act of violating someone or something

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Refugee

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A person who was forced to leave due to war, persecution, or natural disaster.

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Holocaust

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The genocide of over 6 million Jews caused by Adolf Hitler.

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Concentration Camp

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An imprisonment, usually of the Jewish people, made to kill the Jews in the end

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Secretary General

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Head of the United Nations Secretariat, which is one of the principle organs of the UN.

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Security Council

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UN’s most powerful body

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General Assembly

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Main deliberative, policy making, and most representative organ of the UN

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Scapegoat

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A person who is wrongfully blamed for something they did not do/commit.

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Persecuted

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Mistreatment of a person or group

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Anti-Semitic

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Prejudice, hatred, or discrimination of the Jewish culture.

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Israel

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Country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea

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Palestine

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A historic region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea

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West Bank

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Used to be owned by Jordan, but was captured by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967

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Partition

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Dividing into parts

17
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Balfour Declaration

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A letter from UK’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, the leader of the British Jewish community.

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Zionism

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A movement for the re-establishment and the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel

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Palestine Liberation Organization

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An organization made to liberate all Palestinians.

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Intifada

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A Palestinian upbringing against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank

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