Term 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

is an intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945, to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict.

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

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

an offense or an infraction.

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

was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

Question 6

concentration camp

Answer 6

camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. Usually a place for Jewish people.

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

of the United Nations (UNSG) is the head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations.

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations. The current Secretary-General is Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, who took office on 1 January 2007.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

is the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN. Decisions on important questions, such as those on peace and security, admission of new members and budgetary matters, require a two-thirds majority.

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place

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

discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

Israel or, officially the State of Israel, is 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

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

a division into or distribution in portions or shares.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

(dated 2 November 1917) was 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

the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

is more than a national liberation movement striving to achieve the national goals of the Palestinian people, including the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. The PLO was established by the Arab League in 1964 with Arab support.

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

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