term 3 vocab

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

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

the act of doing something that is not allowed by a law or rule

Question 4

refugee

Answer 4

someone who has been forced to leave a country because of war or for religious or political reasons

Question 5

Holocaust

Answer 5

the killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during World War II

Question 6

concentration camp

Answer 6

a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

a principal administrative officer

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

a permanent council of the United Nations with primary responsibility for maintaining peace and security

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

the highest governing body in a religious denomination (as the United Presbyterian Church)

Question 10

scapegoat

Answer 10

a person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done

Question 11

persecuted

Answer 11

to treat (someone) cruelly or unfairly especially because of race or religious or political beliefs

Question 12

anti-semitic

Answer 12

hatred of Jewish people

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

a county created post WW2 for jewish references

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

region bordering on the Mediterranean on W & Dead Sea on E; a part of the Ottoman Empire 1516–1917, a British mandate 1923–48; now approx. coextensive with Israel and the West Bank

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

area Middle East W of Jordan River; occupied by Israel since 1967 with parts having been transferred to Palestinian administration since 1993

Question 16

partition

Answer 16

the division of a country into separate political units

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

(dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (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

political support for the creation and development of a Jewish homeland in Israel

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

Organization is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the “liberation of Palestine” through armed struggle.

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

an armed uprising of Palestinians against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip