Term 3 Vocab Flashcards

1
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United Nations

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An organization made to keep peace between other nations

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2
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Declaration of Human Rights

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Rights that all citizens are in tittled to

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3
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Violation

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When you break a law

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4
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Refugee

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People that are kicked out of their own country or land

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5
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Holocaust

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Destruction or slaughter on a massive scale

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6
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Concentration camp

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A place where a large group of people are kept as prisoners of war or persecuted minority

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7
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Secretary General

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Title given to the principal administrator of some organizations

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8
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Security Council

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Primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace

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9
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General Assembly

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Main deliberative body of the United Nations

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10
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Scapegoat

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Blaming race for something they didn’t do

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11
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Persecuted

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To show hostility and ill-treatment especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs

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12
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Anti-Semitic

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To be prejudice against or discrimination against Jews

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13
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Israel

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The country created out of war in 1948

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14
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Palestine

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A piece of land long the Mediterranean sea

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15
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West Bank

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A landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast

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16
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Partition

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the action of dividing a state into parts.

17
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Balfour Declaration

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Transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland

18
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Zionism

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

19
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Palestine Liberation Organization

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organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the liberation of Palestine through armed struggle

20
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Intifada

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