Term 3 Vocab

Question 1

United nations

Answer 1

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945, to promote international co-operation

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

The Universal Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. Motivated by the experiences of the preceding world wars, the Universal Declaration was the first time that countries agreed on a comprehensive statement of inalienable human rights.

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

Fail to respect (someone’s peace, privacy, or rights)

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 Security Council 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 (as the United Presbyterian Church) 2 : a legislative assembly; especially : a United States state legislature

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.

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

Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

ancient region SW Asia bordering on E coast of the Mediterranean & extending E of Jordan River

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: occupied in 1967

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

(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

The Balfour Declaration (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

a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.

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

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