Term 3 test

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.

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

Question 6

Concentration Camp

Answer 6

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

is the primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace. Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

the highest governing body in a religious denomination.

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

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

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

Question 12

Anti-Semitic

Answer 12

hostility or prejudice against Jews.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948.

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel.

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

a division into or distribution in portions or shares.

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

a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

an umbrella organization for several Arab groups dedicated to the recovery of Palestine from the state of Israel and the return of refugees from the area to their homeland through diplomatic, military, and terrorist means.

Question 20

Intifada

Answer 20

a revolt begun in December 1987 by Palestinian Arabs to protest Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.