Term 3 Vocab

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

an intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict.

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

Halocaust

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. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Secretary Council

Answer 8

An important division of the United Nations that contains five permanent members — the United States, Britain, China, France, and Russia — and ten rotating members. It is often called into session to respond quickly to international crises.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

the main deliberative body of the United Nations, composed of delegations from member nations. 1610-1620. 1610-20, Americanism. British Dictionary definitions for General Assembly Expand.

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

is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

Israel or, 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

Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is sometimes considered to include adjoining territories

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories.

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

Divide into parts.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

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

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

Question 20

Intifada

Answer 20

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