Vocab

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945, to promote international co-operation.

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Universal Declaration) is an international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

To break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement).

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 Camps

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

The Security Council 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

One of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation.

Question 10

Sacpegoat

Answer 10

A person or group that is made to bear blame for others.

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

Hostility toward Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompanied by social, political or economic discrimination.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

Israel, 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

(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

The Balfour Declaration (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

a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

The Palestine Liberation Organization is 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.