Term 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

An intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation.

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 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 where many Jews were murdered.

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

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

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

Is 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

One of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation.

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

Question 11

Persecuted

Answer 11

To be chased down or followed.

Question 12

Anti-Semitic

Answer 12

To be prejudice or hostile toward Jews.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

A country in Western Asia, situated at the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is sometimes considered to include adjoining territories.

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

A landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories.

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

To divide into parts.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

A letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to 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 the re-establishment and the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

The Palestine Liberation Organization is an 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.