History Grade 12 Term 3

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

Is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

Is an international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

Action of violating someone or something.

Question 4

Refugee

Answer 4

Person 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.

Question 6

Concentration Camp

Answer 6

A place were large numbers of people are deliberately imprisoned in a small area.

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

A title given to the principal administrator of some organization.

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

Primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

World’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security.

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

Blaming someone who was not even in the situation

Question 11

Persecuted

Answer 11

Ill-treatment of someone because of their race or religion.

Question 12

Anti-semitic

Answer 12

Prejudice against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group.

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

Country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

It is the from the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. It was controlled by the Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, and Roman empires. Then by the Arabs.

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

Land on the west bank of the Jordan River, formerly in the hands of Jordan, but captured by Israel in the Six-Day Way of 1967.

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

Action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

A letter to the leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Question 18

Zionism

Answer 18

A movement to the development and protection of a Jewish nation in Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

Committed to a compromise which Israel exchange portions of the Occupied Territories.

Question 20

Intifada

Answer 20

A Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.