Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

I think Apartheid means Racial segregation policy of the government. Which means that Africans didn't have that much rights in there own country like the white people had there. One example would be that the African couldn't vote in till 1990.Nelson Mandela was a hero because he fought for unity and liberation

African Independence

The African Independence changed a lot. In 1957 the Goold Coast became a indepent conutry and after that it was name Ghana. Ghana was the first African country to have it's Independence. Nkrumah was the first prime minister of Ghana and then later became president of that country for life. Nkrumah had a lot of plans for Ghana he builded new road and school and had health plans too. .Even though Nkrumah had good intensions for the country it was hard for the economy to stay stable because all the plans he had for the country required a lot of money and Ghana did not have that much money in that time. Another country that couldn't get it's indepence that easily was Kenya. Kenya had to leader that where from Europe. In 1973 Kenya got it's Independce from the British. Kenyatta became president of Kenya but he died in 1978 and Daniel arap Moi became president after that he faced a lot of hard time while he was president of that country. Africa has change so much through out the year because a lot of countries got there indepence from the European countries and a lot of other countries had been formed too. If you compare both maps you see clearly that in the new Africa there are more countries then before.

9th Grade Review - Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution was a turning point in human life. It was a turning point because because people use to be nomads and gathered between 20 to 30 people. They use to hunt for food. In about 10,000 BCE people began to cultivate crop. Work areas where divided between women and men and like always men always took the lead of the jobs. The villages where run by the council of the elders and some villages had chief elders. During war time some men would gain great warrior statues. After that there was social classes.

The European Union

The European Union is a system where 25 countries in Europe have united. The union of the European countries has been a good thing because when the USSR collapsed the only super power left was the US. Now the compete ion of the US is the European Union. In Jan.2002 the Eur's was present and now it's one of the leading currencies in the world. The European Union has 500 million citizens it has more then the US. The European Union will prevent any war in Europe due to this Union.

"The Right Stuff"

The Soviet Union and the US where competing to see who was the first person to go to space. At first the US was winning because they where building the spaceship and they had to build it several times because something would always come out wrong. The when they finally build the spaceship right the US decided to they wanted to send a monkey up to space first because they did not want no one dieing up in space. Then 2 day after they send the monkey that Soviet Union send a human up to space. It made the US look kinda bad because who sends a monkey and not a human. The scene that will help me remember the Soviet Union is when they where building the spaceship because that also reminds me of who was the first person to go to the moon.

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuba Missile Crisis took place in 1962 during the cold war. Basically during that time the Soviet Union was going to use nuclear weapons just so that Cuba wouldn't get invaded by that United States. The Soviet's didn't have missiles as powerful as the United States did back then. So Nikita Khrushchev had an idea of put missiles in Cuba. The reason why the Soviet Union relied on Cuba was because Cuba was scared that the US would invade Cuba again since they failed before. So Cuba approved that the Soviet's would build a secret Missile installation in Cuba. The US found out that they where building the secret place and then ordered a naval quarantine around Cuba. After all of that both countries sat down and negotiated even though there was a lot of tension between both countries. Finally the Soviets took there installations out of Cuba and return back to the Soviet Union.

Nato and the Warsaw Pact

The Nato was a pact between North America and European countries. This was a pact that benefited both continents because it was a mutual defense alliance. It most benefited Europe economically because right after the war ended Europe didn't have a stable economic system. That was call a marshall plan. It also helped because if one of the countries was attacked they would all have back up. The Warsaw pact mostly involved the Soviet Union and there Satellite countries. This pact was made right after the "Nato" pact. The Warsaw was a communist group. The Nato group was joined by 12 nations like United Kingdom, United States. This Group did not support the communist system.

Night and Fog

My reaction to the film is that it was scary how the Nazi's got rid of the bodies. I don't even know how they where able to kill a Jewish person and then burn the bodies and live there lifes like nothing. The film is really powerful because we see scenes of the dead bodies and then we see how the Germans use there hair to make rugs. We also saw how there living conditions where in the Ghetto and in the concentration camps. They barely ate food and they where starving to dead and they where so skinny that you could see there bones. In the film the "Night and Fog" you see real scenes and you also see concentrations camps and how they are now. In the documentary they actually show you the real things while in Schinlder list they are reacted. The documentary shows more what the Holocaust was about because he uses real scenes from back then. We even see Hitler in 2 or 3 scenes of the movie. Some of the scenes of the documentary where painful to see because there are things in life you don't expect to see but in that documentary we see them.

Schindler's List

The movie showed the holocaust because we saw scenes of how the Nazi treated the Jews. It showed us how they where kicked out of there own homes and how they got rid of there bodies when they had killed them. The most powerful scene to me was when they where burning the bodies and the Nazi solider was screaming and then Ocsar Schindler was they seeing how they bodies where pilled up and then he see's the little girl with the red jacket dead. I think that was cruel of putting the Jews in the ghetto and in the camps because they suffered a lot. They all where skinny and they didn't even know what was going to happen to them. The image that will stay with me is when the little girl in the red jacket is running around and when Oscar Schindler looks at her like if she meant something to him and then he's wife or girlfriend starts crying. That scene will stay with me because supposely Oscar Schindler was part of the Nazi party but in the way he acted it's like he never agree to any of that.

US Atomic Bombing

I agree with the US Atomic bomb being #1 because it was the first time any nation used a atomic bomb. It was basically the first and last time the atomic bomb was used because after that it was never used. I also agree because a lot of people where killed during that bombing. I don't think anyother story could of taken the first place. Maybe the only news that could of taken the first place was when the Japanese made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. I wouldn't change anything from that list because everything that happen from world war I and world war II and etc was in the list. I think the list looks find just the way it is.

Propaganda is when information and ideas are spread to harm someone, group or a nation.I think the poster means that Germany is loseing the war and that the other countries like France and England are fighting back. In other words they are getting back at ermany for all the destruction they caused. The symbol of those buildings and gold are the things that Germany wanted. Those thing where good that Germany wanted.

Film Gandhi

The things that Gandhi did to help India escape from Great Britain was that he always spoke to the people from India. He never told the people to do bad stuff to the english people he always spoke to the Indian people and he would make them understand. The only thing Gandhi asked the Indian people to do was to not buy clothes from the english people. Gandhi asked the Indian people to where a white cloth instead of wearing clothes. When the Indian people used violence Gandhi would stop eating for a period so that the Indian people would stop the violence. People at first wouldn't stop but then when they realize Gandhi was doing it for real they stopped.

The Treaty Of Versailles

The treaty of versailles affected Germany because they got blamed for everything that happen during world war I. All the territory they had they lost due to this treaty. The countries that won the war where benefit fronm this treaty because they got to keep all that territory that Germany once had control off. I do think that the treaty of Versailles led to the fascism of Hitler because after that Germany was left with nothing. They had no money no territories no nothing. Hilter just wanted Germany to go back to it's old ways and to be the same Germany before world war I.