Vocabulary Flashcards
United Nations
Organization that keeps peace established on October 24, 1945
Declaration of Human Rights
Declaration adopted by the United Nation General Assembly on December 10, 1948
Violation
Act of breaking rules, privacy etc.
Refugee
Person who flees for safety (especially to a foreign country)
Holocaust
Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused buy fir or nuclear war; Killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis
Concentration camp
A place where a large number of people where political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities are imprisoned in small areas
Secretary General
Principle administrator of the United Nations
Security Council
One of six principle organs of the UN that is in charge of maintenance of international peace and security
General Assembly
One of six principle organs of the UN and the only one that all member nations have equal representation
Scapegoat
A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place
Persecuted
To pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment especially because of religious or political beliefs
Anti-semetic
A person who is prejudice towards Jews
Israel
Country in western Asia
Palestine
Region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River
West Bank
Landlocked territory in Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories
