Term 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

Untied Nations

Answer 1

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

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, 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

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 person or group that is made to bear blame for others

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

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

Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

an area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel; formerly held by Jordan.

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

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

movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

an organization founded in 1964 with the aim of creating a state for Palestinians; with the purpose of the “liberation of Palestine”

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

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