Term 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
United Nations
An intergovernmental organization
Declaration of Human Rights
Is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly
violation
Action of violating someone or something
refugee
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war
Holocaust
A Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar.
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 and forced labor or to await mass execution.
Secretary General
A title given to the principal administrator of some organizations, most notably the United Nations.
Security Council
Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations.
General Assembly
Is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation.
scapegoat
A goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it
persecuted
To hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
anti-semitic
Is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group.
Israel
Is also the name of the northern kingdom of the Israelite, when their nation was split in two after the death of King Solomon.
Palestine
Historic region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, comprising parts of modern Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.
West Bank
Is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories.
