Term 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

is an intergovernmental organization

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

the action of violation someone or something

Question 4

Refugee

Answer 4

a person who is forced to leave there country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Question 5

Holocaust

Answer 5

Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, caused by fire or nuclear war.

Question 6

Concentration Camp

Answer 6

A large place where people got held and was mistreated by the germans

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

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

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

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

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

Question 12

Anti-semitic

Answer 12

is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

Its a state and a country in western Asia

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

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

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild

Question 18

Zionism

Answer 18

the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

s 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.