Term 3 Vocab

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

An organization made to keep peace between other nations

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

Rights that all citizens are in tittled to

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

When you break a law

Question 4

Refugee

Answer 4

People that are kicked out of their own country or land

Question 5

Holocaust

Answer 5

Destruction or slaughter on a massive scale

Question 6

Concentration camp

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

Title given to the principal administrator of some organizations

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

Primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

Main deliberative body of the United Nations

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

Blaming race for something they didn’t do

Question 11

Persecuted

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Anti-Semitic

Answer 12

To be prejudice against or discrimination against Jews

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

The country created out of war in 1948

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

A piece of land long the Mediterranean sea

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

A landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

the action of dividing a state into parts.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

Transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland

Question 18

Zionism

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

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.