world history 12 term 3

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation

Question 2

Declaration of Human rights

Answer 2

is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world

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

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews

Question 6

concentration camp

Answer 6

refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.

Question 7

secretary general

Answer 7

is the head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations.

Question 8

security council

Answer 8

is the United Nations’ most powerful body, with “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.

Question 9

general assembly

Answer 9

provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the charter

Question 10

scapegoat

Answer 10

a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

Question 11

persecuted

Answer 11

is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group

Question 12

anti-semitic

Answer 12

is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

a Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea, is regarded by Jews, Christians and Muslims as the biblical Holy Land.

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

A territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It comprised the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The land was controlled at various times by the Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, and Roman empires before being conquered by the Arabs

Question 15

west bank

Answer 15

is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories and the State of Palestine.

Question 16

partition

Answer 16

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 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

supports Jews upholding their Jewish identity defined as adherence to religious Judaism, opposes the assimilation of Jews into other societies, and has advocated the return of Jews to Israel as a means for Jews to be a majority nation in their own state.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the “liberation of Palestine” through armed struggle.

Question 20

intifada

Answer 20

was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference in 1991