vocabulary term 3

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

an international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

a United Nations document approved on December 10, 1948, by the General Assembly, affirming the rights of all human beings.

Question 3

violation

Answer 3

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.a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar.

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

head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations.

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

a permanent body of the United Nations seeking to maintain peace and security.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

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

Question 10

scapegoat

Answer 10

a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.

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

hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state

Question 14

palestine

Answer 14

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

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

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

a statement, issued by the British government on November 2, 1917, favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews but without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.

Question 18

Zionism

Answer 18

a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

an umbrella organization for several Arab groups dedicated to the recovery of Palestine from the state of Israel and the return of refugees from the area to their homeland through diplomatic, military, and terrorist means.

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

a revolt begun in December 1987 by Palestinian Arabs to protest Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.