The Collapse of Communism.

Communism collapse in Eastern Europe and in USSR because so people can leave the country without exit visas and caused a migration to east germany. The Countries formed a union against communism called the warsaw pact. Which denied communism into countrys. So this started the beginning of the collapse of communism.

Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of Russia. He was so far the youngest president who was at age 54. Mikhail decided that since Russia was a totalitarian state, and nothing was getting done, he thought that he should open up Russia more so that free fresh new ideas will come and make Russia more economic and new with social reforms. This was called the "Glasnost". This was to promote Openness in Russia.

In 1985, Gorbachev decided to make something new called "Peristrokia". This was to make economic reforms. Local managers gained full rights to their farms and property and people were allowed to own privately owned small businesses. So that way this could help with creating jobs.

Also it helped take down the Berlin wall and end communnism.

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

In my own words, Apartheid was a policy of government of South Africa from 1948 to 1994. The policy was that colored people could not vote, especially in primarily elections.And it also like that people that were not white did not get full citizenship. So mainly apartheid was a racial segragation policy in South Africa that very much similar to the one in the US. This policy stated that white people were above everyone else and can vote, while the "Bantu" which is everyone else that is black mixed or Indian is nit able to. Nelson Mandela was put into jail because of this.

Nelson Mandela was a man who fought for the independence of South Africa. He was involeved in the ANC's fight to make sure that there was no violence was used and that non- violence was the methods to get freedom and justice and to stop the Apartheid. He was a hero because of this. He was in jail for 26 years and he got out, wrote a book, and still continued to fight for his country and the people admired that and when elections came in 1991, he was elected over the other person with 61% of the votes.

African Independence

Africa back in the times were once ruled by different types of European countries.Like the English, the Germans, the Italians, not the Spanish because they conquered most of south America. Africa was divided into many different countries for this European countries. As the time passed, the Africans wanted their own independence. They wanted to become their own countries. So during the 1950s, the countries began to independence them from the English. One perfect example of the leaders was Ahmed Ben Bella. He was a leader of the fln who was in prisn of France and when he got released, he was named the 1st presedent of Algeria. He began land forms and developed new plans for education. So he was perfect example of what he did in order to make one of the many African nations to become independence.

Film Lesson: The Right Stuff

Both the US and USSR were both competing to see who was the 1st to see who gets to space faster. And in some point, the US was very embarrass because they 1st sent up a monkey and instead of a man. A few nights later, Russia sent up their very first man up in space. That was why the US was very embarrass. The Russians got a head start for the space race. But the ones who one the race was the US because we were the first man to land on the moon. The scenes from the movie that will help me remember about the cold war would most likely when the scientist was testing out the rockets, and who all of them failed. The reason why that would remind me of the cold war is because it shows me how funny it was when the Americans and the Russians were on a race to see who is smarter, stronger and better then each other.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is a organization of countries that are from Europe and North America. The reason why they were created was because just in case one of the countries were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come to their side and fight against to who ever attacked the country of NATO. The Warsaw pact was the exact same thing as NATO but involved other countries. The reason why is was made was because Russia felt treated by NATO, so they created it in order to be cool. NATO was against communist, so that another main reason in why NATO was created.And the Warsaw pact was created also because they wanted to keep their communist thing together.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

I thought that Schindlers list explained alittle more better about the halocaust then the other film. I liked this film better because it had more imagination in how the jews were treated, it showed more details. I think that the scenes that were very powerful was when the Nazis soilders were out burning the bodies and how the nazi's were killing innocent families that were still in the ghetto and hiding from them. That i thought was very sad. The images from that film that will stay with me is when the nazis are taking away the childern from the mothers while the mothers were being checked for sicknesses, that will stay with me because that was also very sad. For the viewer i think that the movie of Night and fog was more powerful because it has real footage of how the deadbodies were found.