Term 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

United Nation

Answer 1

An international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries. The organization works on economic and social development programs, improving human rights and reducing global conflicts.

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

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 action 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

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

a title given to the principal administrator of some organizations, most notably the United Nations.

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

the primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace. Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

the highest governing body in a religious denomination (as the United Presbyterian Church) 2 : a legislative assembly; especially : a United States state legislature.

Question 10

scapegoat

Answer 10

aid the sins of the people upon it

Question 11

persecuted

Answer 11

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

Question 12

anti-semitic

Answer 12

hostility or prejudice against Jews

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

The name given to Jacob after he wrestled with God

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories.

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

a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (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. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

The Palestine Liberation Organization is an organization founded in 1964

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

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