Term 3 Vocab

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

an intergovernmental organization that was established on Oct 24, 1945 to start cooperation.

Question 2

Declaration of human rights

Answer 2

a declaration that was adopted by the united nations on Dec 10, 1948.

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

an act of violating something or someone

Question 4

Refugee

Answer 4

a person that has been forced to leave their country to escape war, or persecution.

Question 5

Holocaust

Answer 5

destruction or slaughter on a mass scale; Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned on altar.

Question 6

Concentration camp

Answer 6

a place where large group of people ; political prisoners

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

a title given to the principal administrator of some organizations.

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

a primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

one of the six organs of the united nations and the only one in which all members nations have equal representation.

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

a person that is made to bear the blame for others

Question 11

Persecuted

Answer 11

hostility or ill treatment

Question 12

anti- Semitic

Answer 12

prejudice or hatred against the Jews as racial group.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

northern kingdom of the Israelites

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

historic region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea

Question 15

West bank

Answer 15

a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean sea coast of western Asia.

Question 16

partition

Answer 16

divide into parts

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

a statement, issued by the British government on Nov 2, 1917 , favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews but without prejudice to the civil rights of the existing non Jewish communicates in Palestine.

Question 18

Zionism

Answer 18

a movement of the establishment of the development of the protection of the Jewish nation in what now is Israel

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

a 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 the gaza strip in 1987