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 of Human Rights (Universal Declaration) is an international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.

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, 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

Question 10

scapegoat

Answer 10

a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

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

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, situated at the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

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

Land on the west bank of the Jordan River, formerly in the hands of Jordan, but captured by Israel in the Six-Day War of 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

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

(sometimes initial capital letter) a revolt begun in December 1987 by Palestinian Arabs to protest Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.