Term 3 Vocab Flashcards
(20 cards)
United Nations
an intergovernmental organization that was established on Oct 24, 1945 to start cooperation.
Declaration of human rights
a declaration that was adopted by the united nations on Dec 10, 1948.
Violation
an act of violating something or someone
Refugee
a person that has been forced to leave their country to escape war, or persecution.
Holocaust
destruction or slaughter on a mass scale; Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned on altar.
Concentration camp
a place where large group of people ; political prisoners
Secretary General
a title given to the principal administrator of some organizations.
Security Council
a primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace.
General Assembly
one of the six organs of the united nations and the only one in which all members nations have equal representation.
Scapegoat
a person that is made to bear the blame for others
Persecuted
hostility or ill treatment
anti- Semitic
prejudice or hatred against the Jews as racial group.
Israel
northern kingdom of the Israelites
Palestine
historic region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea
West bank
a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean sea coast of western Asia.
partition
divide into parts
Balfour Declaration
a statement, issued by the British government on Nov 2, 1917 , favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews but without prejudice to the civil rights of the existing non Jewish communicates in Palestine.
Zionism
a movement of the establishment of the development of the protection of the Jewish nation in what now is Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
a purpose of the “ liberation of Palestine” through armed struggle.
intifada
the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the west bank and the gaza strip in 1987
