Term 3 vocab

Question 1

united nations

Answer 1

The United Nations (UN) is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.

Question 2

Declaration of human rights

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

the act 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

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.

Question 8

security council

Answer 8

The Security Council is the United Nations’ most powerful body, with “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.”

Question 9

general assembly

Answer 9

The General Assembly is the world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security, and for making recommendations concerning them.

Question 10

scapegoat

Answer 10

(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (

Question 11

persecuted

Answer 11

subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.

Question 12

anti-semitic

Answer 12

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

Israel is a country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

A territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Question 15

west bank

Answer 15

Land on the west bank of the Jordan River

Question 16

partition

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Balfour declaration

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

zionism

Answer 18

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

Question 19

palestine liberation organization

Answer 19

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

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

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