Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

32323The Africans word meaning separation or segregation was called Apartheid. Apartheid was the racial policy brought about by the National Party government of South Africa in 1948. Everyone who wasn't considered whites didn't have the same rights as those who were white. That included black people,mixed, and Indians. African Americans weren't able to do a lot of things in Africa, their own country. They weren't able to vote, use many public facilities, including bathrooms and institutions until 1990. It was because these places were restricted to the use of one race only. Which was usually the whites. If you failed to follow these rules, then you would probably be killed if you were black.
22t2But there was this man that Africa considered a hero because of the results he brought to the table. His name was nelson Mandela. He helped them in the fight for freedom. He lived in the streets of South Africa were if you don't abide by the rules of apartheid you would be thrown in jail.He began as a leader in the African National Congress, but he was work to fight for freedom was cut short because he was sentenced to death. His trail is now seen as nothing more than a cruel and evil plan used by the white South African government to silence Nelson Mandela. Even though he was in jail for a few decades, the hope he left helped his people to fight against the struggle of Apartheid while he was gone. He was thanked for that and was given awards for it. Plus his people were so happy that they finally received freedom from apartheid

African Independence

2343Well based on the map, Africa has changed way then a little. It changed dramatically. In 1975, like 95 percent of Africa was taken over by the colonies. The Europeans ruled most of Africa. The only places that were taken over was: Liberia,Libya,Egypt,Ethiopia, and the union of south Africa. But the fight for independence started 1951.Some leaders who lead the fight to freedom were, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Nelson Mandela of South Africa. The leading country in the independence was Ghana in 1957. But prior to the independence, it was the British colonies gold coast. Once countrys gained their independence, the changed their name and the gold coast changed theirs to Ghana. This name honored a famous West African kingdom of the past. Ghana became the first nation ruled by Africans to join the British Commonwealth. They were ver excited to be free but the wasn't prepared to rule yet. The Africans weren't educated on how to govern properly. They were being ruled for over 20 years so what do you expect?

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

23In the movie "The Right Stuff", it was a fight between America and Russia which took place in 1947. It was more like a race then a fight though. It was called the space race. It was a race seeing who can get to outer space first. The Americans thought they were winning the race when they built a air plane that was able to pass the sound barrier.So the americans got excited when this happened. They got confident that they were the strongest.But when the russians had built a space ship ti go in space, the Americans were afraid. they were afraid that the Russians could just drop nucks down from space or something. Then the Americans caught up and got into space but was ridicualed when the first American i n space was a monkey. So we lost the war for the first to space. But we won the race which was getting to the moon first.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

324324NATO means "North Atlantic Treaty Organization". The organization included countries in Europe and North America. The organization was established on April 4, 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty. Since America was the country leading the race of nuclear weapons, Western European powers relied on their massive nuclear arsenal to keep the evil soviet union away.After a while, the soviet union realized that they cant do anything because of the united states' nuclear weapons.After this, communism fell and the need for military assistance was over,so it turned into a political organization.
5435The Warsaw Pact formed six years after NATO.The Warsaw Pact included the Soviet Union and its satellite countries.Which were: Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Albania, and Bulgaria. The act was created because of NATO.It was signed in Poland in 1955 and was called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'.Even thought it sounded like a nice name, it was a military treaty that stated that the country's included in the treaty will come to each others aid in case it was attack by country's outside of the treaty.By 1991, the pact was over with.

Film Lesson :" Night and Fog"

Between the two movies, i think that night AND fog was more of a powerful movie. I say this because it showed some graphic stuff. It was actually footage of what happen. So actually graphic footage would give a better message then a movie based on something that happened then. Because the footage would make you really understand. Like Night and fog , it showed the actual dead bodies. How the Jews were really treated. How hen you look at the dead bodies, you could see how the were deprived . You would see the body super skinny showing that they didn't have food. That their hair was basically bald because their hair was shaved off. Alot of the bodies were decapitated and just so sad looking. You would see the field of dead bodies because they had no more coal to burn them. I felt bad for the soldiers and others who had to see, smell, and to carry the dead bodies I just thank God i wasn't living at the time to see these horrible actions. I especially wouldnt want to be a Jew at the time!

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

Schindler's List showed a great deal on important information about the holocaust. It showed how barbaric and horrible the Nazis were. Especially to the Jews. They did the most cruel things to the jews. the drove them out of their homes. It was from their homes, to the ghetto, to the working camps, to the death camps. which was the last stage when they were losing the war. It showed how they divided the jews acording to gender and age. if your old enough to work, they would take you to work. if your old, a woman or a child, they would kill you off. They woman and childern ahd a same chance of living depending on the camp , but the old was killed regardless. The ones who died died from starvation , being shot, burned or gassed. No mercy was being shown.
Some of the most horrible , cruel things i saw was when the people were hiding in the town after the raid. When they thought they were safe then started to come out, only realizing that the Nazis were waiting for them. The soliders killed them in cold blood. With no mercy. They didnt care if you were young,old,man, child, woman, pretty or ugly. They killed you off regardless. They felt like it was the right thing to do and that it was their job. They thought of it as fun and amusing. The most powerful film out ofnthe two of them was night and fog. it had actual footage and showed the acutal terrors that happened. It made you feell like you were actually there.

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)

When War War 1 was all said and done, it affected Germany a lot. One of the problems Germany faced after WWI was having to pay back all the damages done by them. Many European countries demanded huge sums of money from Germany, and as they were unable to fill those demands, the country's economy suffered. Germany also lost a lot of land to surrounding countries (such as the Polish Corridor, etc.)
Germany faced the Treaty of Versailles, which was an agreement signed with France, Britain and America. It stated that Germany had to pay reparations for causing the war. They had to cut their army, armaments and they also lost land, including Alsace Lorraine to France. It had a huge impact on their economy as well as their morale, which is why the German people were so keen to believe Hitler and the Nazis when they said they would better Germany and make it like it was before the Treaty.
The terms of the treaty of Versailles were somewhat harsh, but not out of the ordinary for that time period. In 1871, Germany had forced France to accept similar terms (losing Alsace Lorraine and paying heavy amends).One year earlier, Germany had made Russia sign a treaty that went far, far beyond what Versailles would ask of Germany. If anything, the terms were actually less harsh than what France and Britain had originally wanted; they had wanted to break up Germany, so that it would never again be a military threat...