mikhail gorbachev and the end of communism

glasnost was a policy introduced by gorbachev. it was a way of discussing about how to improve the society with the soviet people. the glasnost had a good outcome until people complained about the change. the glasnost was a generous policy.

peristrokia was another idea by gorbachev because it was an idea of rebuilding the soviet economy. gorbachev didnt want to take away communism.

mikhail gorbachev opened up the soviet union and paved the way for the end of communism by supporting the citizens to make their own amount of money with his big idea also known as peristrokia.

collapse of communism.

one of the main reasons why communism collapsed were the majority of citizens disagreeing on the economic system.
the people among the ussr and eastern europe were running out of money and patience.
people tore down the berlin wall because they were simply angry when they thought they couldnt get to the other side of germany.
germany was divided into two sides. both sides had different economic systems.
once they tore down the berlin wall. everyones situation got a whole lot better.
the collapse of the berlin wall and communism changed the world completely because europe wouldnt have to worry about a nuclear annihilation from the west.

creation of isreal.

zionism is a jewish movement that arose in the late nineteenth century in response to growing anti-semitism and sought to reestablish a jewish homeland in palestine.

the conflict that was made when isreal was created was that the arabs did not like them since they were a different religion. the arabs also did not want the jews near them either. because of this the arabs decided to attack isreal. they kept on attacking. which lead the arabs to separate isreal from palestine.
after the war the isrealis defeated the arabs and won back the country of palestine.

nelson mandela and apartheid.

apartheid is a racist segregation policy used by the government of africa limiting the abilities of the non-white people of africa. by this i mean anyone who was living in africa who werent white didnt have the same full rights as the white people did.

nelson mandela was considered a hero to the african people because he was one of the small few who wasnt afraid to speak freely. the african people needed somebody like mandela to lead the way to earn what they deserved. before his journey, he was thrown into jail because the african government wanted to silence him once and for all after a life in prison. and of course. that didnt work.

he is admired today by many people. most likely for the fact that they found one of the few heroes who fought for what they truely believed in. they probably liked that mandela followed his heart and helped give a positive influence to the heroes of tomarrow

african independence.

the reason why africa changed so much in the short period of twenty years which was 1955 1975 was because during those twenty years africa was in the struggle for independence. africa's countries were taken over by the british making them british colonies. some of the successful leaders were blaise diagne, and moise tshombe.

NATO and The Warshaw Pact

the nato is an organization with countries from europe and north america. the nato was more like an alliance between the countries. like any other alliance, if one country gets attacked the countries allies would help out by defending the country who got attacked. nato stands for national atlantic treaty organization.

the warshaw pact was another alliance but mostly of the soviet union's satelite countries. this pact was made six years right after the nato was made. this pact eventually took over the soviet unions neighbors and made them join the warshaw pact.

Film Lesson: Night and Fog

i felt that this film had alot of real graphic footage of dead people and dying people. and yeah. i did find the footage more powerful than you did. it was pretty powerful because it actually showed real footage while the holocaust was going on. and it showed that it was very brutal back then. i think the other movie shindlers list illustrated the holocaust better because it had a storyline to understand it better.

Film Lesson: "Shindler's List"

This movie illustrated the holocaust by showing the most powerful struggle the jewish people had during this event. It showed how jewish people were killed, how jewish people were tortured, ect. The scene that i found were most powerful to me was when the children were being taken away from their mothers because i think that childen should never deserve to be killed. the image that would stay with me was the image of the jewish people trying to hide from the liquidation of the krakow ghetto.

US Atomic bombing of Japan in 1945

I dont agree that the US atomic bombing of japan was the number one news story of the century because in this century there has been a lot of bombings and terrorist attacks that occured around the world. on the list of the top 100 news of the century i would add what happend on september 11 and the war that is going on now with the US and Iraq.

Film Lesson:"Gandhi"

Gandhi helped his nation by encouraging the people of India to fight back for what they believe was fair between them and the British. Gandhi didnt believe in violence so he and the people of India used civil disobedience. Gandhi held speeches, boycotts and marches.
The british always took advantage of the people of India because of their natural resources. This seems almost like the European Imperialism in Africa