T3 Vocab Flashcards
(20 cards)
United Nations
Established in October 24 , 1945 to maintain peace in the world.
Declaration of human rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
Violation
the action of violating someone or something.
Refugee
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Holocaust
a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar
Concentration camp
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. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.
Secretery General
a title given to the principal administrator of some organizations, most notably the United Nations.
Security council
the primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace. Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations.
General assembly
one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation.
Scapegoat
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
Persecuted
subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
Anti - semitic
prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group.
Israel
Country in Asia
Palestine
Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is sometimes considered to include adjoining territories
Westbank
The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories.
partition
the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.
Balfour decleration
a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
Zionism
a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.
Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the “liberation of Palestine” through armed struggle.
Intifada
the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.
