Vocabulary Term 3

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

An intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.

Question 2

Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 2

A declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.

Question 3

Violation

Answer 3

The action of violating someone or something.

Question 4

Refugee

Answer 4

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Question 5

Holocaust

Answer 5

Also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.

Question 6

Concentration camp

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Secretary General

Answer 7

The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations.

Question 8

Security Council

Answer 8

One of the five principal organs of the United Nations, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security as well as accepting new members to the United Nations and approving any changes to its United Nations Charter.

Question 9

General Assembly

Answer 9

The world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security, and for making recommendations concerning them.

Question 10

Scapegoat

Answer 10

A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

Question 11

Persecuted

Answer 11

The hostility and ill-treatment to a person, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.

Question 12

Anti-semitic

Answer 12

Prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group

Question 13

Israel

Answer 13

A Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea, is regarded by Jews, Christians and Muslims as the biblical Holy Land.

Question 14

Palestine

Answer 14

Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River

Question 15

West Bank

Answer 15

The West Bank or Cisjordan is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories and the State of Palestine.

Question 16

Partition

Answer 16

(especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

Question 17

Balfour Declaration

Answer 17

A letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Question 18

Zionism

Answer 18

a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

Question 19

Palestine Liberation Organization

Answer 19

An organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the “liberation of Palestine” through armed struggle.

Question 20

Intifada

Answer 20

The Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.