Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the Soviet Union because he allowed new ideas be heard. He allowed the churches to be opened, people to be free from jail, and books that were banned were allowed to be read. The citizens were able to vote for the country's candidates. People are allowed to open their own private businesses. He brought back much freedom and allowed many voices to be heard. It allowed angry Soviet citizens to speak of their complaints or problems. He was very open and paved the way for the end of communism because in communism, the government basically controlled everything. Communism restricted freedom of press, speech, and religion. Mikhail's way of governing was different from all the other previous Soviet leaders. The way it was different was because nobody else listened to their people.

Collapse of Communism

The downfall on communism became a major point in history. After WWII, the Soviet Union and the US were involved in a Cold War. They both tried to increase their influence worldwide. The Soviet Union stretched out it's power over the majority of Eastern Europe. It all pretty much came clear that communism was not going to leave Russia. The Soviet Union also separated into 15 different Republics which insisted of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Lativa, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Creation of Israel

The day after their independence was declared, Israel was ambushed by the Arab states and Palestinians. After this brutal ambush came a major Middle Eastern war that existed between the Jews and the Palestinians. The Jews stood alone in their fight against the many for the Holy Land. Upon hearing the news of imperialism, others began to join forces against the Jews. There was Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Europe.After the 1948 war, Israel had increased to about 8,000 square miles of Palestine which decreased the Arab lands that had been in the 1947 U.N. partition by about 50 percent. Jerusalem was divided, with Arabs on the east side of the Green Line and the Jews on the west.

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid was a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first president of South Africa to be elected in full represented democrat elections.In this same year came Nelson Mandela, who was a leading figure in the African National Congress (ANC) in 1964, was released from prison on Feb. 11, 1990 after 27 years and was later elected president. In 1991 the remaining major discriminating laws that supported apartheid were terminated, including the Population Registration Act of 1950.

African Independence

Africa had changed so much in the 20 year period from 1955 to 1975 because Africa in 1955 had more colonies than Africa in 1975. Africa in 1975 has more independent countries than Africa in 1955. The leader of their largely nonviolent protests was Kwame Nkrumah. He was a former teacher who had spent several years studying in the United States.willing to grant the Gold Coast colony. One was the strong leadership of Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta,a Kikuyu educated in
London.

9th grade reviw- Neolithic revolution

The Neolithic Revolution is the term for the first agricultural revolution, describing the transition from hunting and gathering to Agriculture, as first adopted by various independent prehistoric Human societies in various locations. The term refers to both the general time period over which these initial developments took place and the subsequent changes to Neolithic Human societies which either resulted from, or are associated with, the adoption of early farming techniques and crop cultivation. The first agricultural revolution spurred major social changes, including an increasing popular density, the organization of a society, specialization in non-agricultural crafts, such as clay figurine making in Catalhoyuk, standing armies, barter, and trade and the expansion of human "control" over nature.

The European Union

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The European Union is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 27 states in Europe. It was established in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union (The Maastricht Treaty), and is the successor to the six-member European Economic community founded in 1957. The EU is the current stage of a continuing open-ended process of European integration.

Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

In this movie the u.s and Russia were competing as you might say in space. They were both trying to put a man in space. But the u.s put up a monkey first, and Russia put a man. But We beat them when we had put the first Man on the moon .

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States in Cuba. The missiles were ostensibly placed to protect Cuba from further planned attacks by the United States after the failed Bay of pigs invasion, and were rationalized by the Soviets as equivalent to the U.S. placing deployable nuclear Warheads in the United Kingdom,Italy, Greece, and most significantly, Turkey.

The crisis began on October 14, 1962 when U.S. imagery revealing Soviet nuclear missile installations on the island were shown to U.S president John f. Kennedy and ended fourteen days later on October 28, 1962, when Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that the installations would be dismantled. The Cuban Missile Crisis is often regarded as the moment when the Cold War came closest to escalating into a Nuclear war .

Russians refer to the event as the "Caribbean Crisis," while Cubans refer to it as the "October Crisis."

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw pact,which was officially named the treaty of friendship, was an organization of central and Eastern European communist states .It was established on May 1st, 1955 in Warsaw ,Poland has to counter the alleged threat from the Nato alliance. The creation of the Warsaw Pact was prompted by the integration of a "re-militarized" West Germany into NATO on May 9, 1955. The Pact lasted throughout the Cold war until certain member nations began withdrawing in 1989, following the collapse of the Eastern Block and political changes in the Soviet Union. The treaty was signed in Warsaw on May 14, 1955 and official copies were made in Russian, Polish, Czech and German.