Term 3

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries. The organization works on economic and social development programs, improving human rights and reducing global conflicts.

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.

Question 3

violation

Answer 3

an act or instance of violating something and especially a failure to do what is required or expected by a law, rule, or agreement

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, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

the primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace. Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations. Under the charter, the council is permitted to dispatch a UN force to stop aggression.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

the world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security, and for making recommendations concerning them. It has no power to enforce decisions. It is composed of the 51 original member nations and those admitted since, totaling 192.

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-semitic

Answer 12

prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

The name given to Jacob after he wrestled with God. Israel is also the name of the northern kingdom of the Israelites, when their nation was split in two after the death of King Solomon

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

Historic region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, comprising parts of modern Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

A disputed territory in historic Palestine west of the Jordan River, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.

Question 16

partition

Answer 16

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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

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

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

Question 18

zionism

Answer 18

a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

The PLO has long been led by Yasir Arafat and, at least officially, is committed to a compromise by which Israel would exchange portions of the Occupied Territories, areas including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank that Israel took from the Arabs in the Six-Day War.

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

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