History Vocab Term 3 Flashcards
(20 cards)
United Nations
An intergovernmental organization established October 24, 1945 to promote international co-operation
Declaration of Human Rights
An international document that states the basic fundamental rights for all human beings.
Violation
Breaking of law
Refugee
A person who flees for safety
Holocaust
The mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II
Concentration Camp
Where people are detained or confined, usually under hard conditions
Security General
The head of the UN, a principal member of the organization
Security Council
The primary maintenance of international world peace
General Assembly
The highest governing body in religious denomination
Scapegoat
In Jewish bible, a goat is sent into the wilderness after the priest laid the sins of others upon it.
Persecuted
Hostility or mistreatment of people based on their race and religious beliefs.
Anti-semitic
Discrimination against Jews religion, ethnic or religious group
Israel
Asia, Mediterranean, formed as a Jewish state in May 1949
Palestine
“Holy Land”
West Bank
In the Middle East, between the W Bank of the Jordan River and E frontier of Israel.
partition
The action of dividing each other
Balfour Declaration
A statement by the British in Palestine for Jewish communities not to arrive in their area.
Zionism
A movement or re-establishing and developing the protection of all Jewish nations
Palestine Liberation Organization
An organization for several Arab groups in the mission to recover Palestine from the state of Israel.
intifada
The Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
