Term 3 vocab Flashcards
united nations
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.
Declaration of human rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
Violation
the act of violating someone or something
Refugee
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
holocaust
destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
concentration camp
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.
secretary general
The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG) is the head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations.
security council
The Security Council is the United Nations’ most powerful body, with “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
general assembly
The General Assembly is the world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security, and for making recommendations concerning them.
scapegoat
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (
persecuted
subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
anti-semitic
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group.
Israel
Israel is a country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.
Palestine
A territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
west bank
Land on the west bank of the Jordan River
partition
especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.
Balfour declaration
The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
zionism
a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel
palestine liberation organization
The PLO has long been led by Yasir Arafat and, at least officially, is committed to a compromise by which Israel would exchange portions of the Occupied Territories
intifada
the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.
