Term 3 Vocab Flashcards
(20 cards)
United Nations
An organization made to keep peace between other nations
Declaration of Human Rights
Rights that all citizens are in tittled to
Violation
When you break a law
Refugee
People that are kicked out of their own country or land
Holocaust
Destruction or slaughter on a massive scale
Concentration camp
A place where a large group of people are kept as prisoners of war or persecuted minority
Secretary General
Title given to the principal administrator of some organizations
Security Council
Primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace
General Assembly
Main deliberative body of the United Nations
Scapegoat
Blaming race for something they didn’t do
Persecuted
To show hostility and ill-treatment especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs
Anti-Semitic
To be prejudice against or discrimination against Jews
Israel
The country created out of war in 1948
Palestine
A piece of land long the Mediterranean sea
West Bank
A landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast
Partition
the action of dividing a state into parts.
Balfour Declaration
Transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland
Zionism
a movement for the re-establishment and development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
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.
