Term 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
Untied Nations
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.
Declaration of Human Rights
is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
violation
the action of violating someone or something.
refugee
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Holocaust
destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
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 with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide 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
is the primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace. Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations.
General Assembly
is the world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security, and for making recommendations concerning them.
scapegoat
A person or group that is made to bear blame for others
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
Israel or, officially the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, situated at the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
Palestine
Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
West Bank
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.
partition
(especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.
Balfour Declaration
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.
zionism
movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.
Palestine Liberation Organization
an organization founded in 1964 with the aim of creating a state for Palestinians; with the purpose of the “liberation of Palestine”
intifada
the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.
