term 3 vocab

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

intergovernmental organization
can to be in october 24, 1945
to promote international co-operation

Question 2

Declaration of human rights

Answer 2

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, 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 head of an organization

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

group of people used to establish international peace and keep it. Main purpose is to prevent war by solving problems between nations

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

a group of people for discussing matters affecting world peace and security, and for making recommendations concerning them. they have no power to enforce decisions. It is composed of the 51 original member nations and those admitted since, totaling 192.

Question 10

scapegoat

Answer 10

something chosen to put the blame on for everything

Question 11

persecuted

Answer 11

to treat someone with hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.

Question 12

anti-semitic

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

a state

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories.

Question 16

partition

Answer 16

reference to a country with separate government the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild. For transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Question 18

zionism

Answer 18

a movement at first for the re-establishment but now for the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel

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.