African Independence

*Africa changed so much in the 20 year period from 1955 to 1975 because of many reasons. In 1955 africa changed because the British colony developed the first African colony in South Sahara to achieve Independence, called the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast was a British colony, their leader was Kwame Nkrumah who organized a party. He helped liberate the Gold Coast from the British by using the strikes and boycotts to battle the british. Due to these results the British granted independence to the Gold Coast and Nkrumah became its prime minister. He renamed the country Ghana that was a new nation to its african past. * In 1975 africa had more independent countries than in 1955, because the africans thought it was neccessary to separate from Europe. Due to this it was more effective because there was independent countries in 1975. In a British colony named Kenya, their leader was Jomo Kenyatta who led them to independence. He spoke for the Kikuyu people who were let out of their land by the European settlers. However, Kenyatta refused to the Mau Mau ( was mainly to frigthen the white farmers to leave the highlands) connection so he was imprisoned by the british for a time for his refusal. In 1963, the british granted Kenya Independence, so Kenyatta became the first prime minister of an Independence Kenya. he worked very hard to unite the varius ethic and language groups in the country.

Neolithic Revolution

*The Neolithic Revolution is the term also know as the first Agricultural Revolution, that describes the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. This revolution was a time period about 10, 000 years ago when everything changed from hard to easy. This means that from hunting and gathering that was very dangerous many went to domesticating animals and plants. Due to this many men changed from cave men to farmers that worked really hard in order to live and have land. There was many advantages due to this change that many settled down and started to grow more food and their population started to increase. Many new cities were formed in river valleys because they had rich soil for farming. There was 4 major rivers named that were the Nile (Africa), Tigris-Euphrates(Mesopotamia), Yellow(China) and Indus(India) Rivers. Due to this places that were organized and very wealthy advanced civilizations began to start. This Revolution was a major event thoughout history because it showed how people lived and how they worked hard in order to live. Many people now would not even be alive because they were starving to death and had no place to live. So, because of this they learned to domesticate animals and plants that was very important in order to live.!

The European Union

*Around the 1980's and 1990's there was an expansion of the European Community that was called the European Union (EU). This union served as politically and economically to all the 25 countries. The European Union then introduced a new European currency called the Euro. Due to this now in today's world more euros are traded every day than US dollars, and the significance of the euro continues to nurture as compared to the US dollar.
*The European union is a good thing because now traveling to Europe is more easier and effective due to this developement. It is more easy to travel around the world like the U.S. this means that they don't have to stop everytime to show them their passport and just keep going. Now many people who live in the EU nations can freely now work in any part of the EU nations without any problems. The 25 European nations have about 500 million citizens and the US have about 300 million citizens which make a big difference in population. The European Union was successful because it had lasted long and many countires were able to establish more effectively.

Film Lesson- "The Right Stuff"

*In the Film "The Right Stuff" there was two kind of countries competing against each other. They were the U.S. and the USSR (Soviet Union), they were trying to get the best rockets and astronuants, the nuclear weapons. They did everything they needed too, so they cen get their best results. The Soviet union tried to first send a monkey in the rocket and see what the results would, so if the monkey survived they would send a human being.The scene that will help me remember is when they were trying to see which spaceships will fly to the moon and that will really work for astronuants to go too. This tell how the first person would go to the moon and how it was planned by the workers who made the spaceship. The winning one was the US because they had better technology that was expanding more and they had chosen better
astronuants that had better abilities to go up to space.

Cuban Missile Crisis

*The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major event during the cold war that was close to a nuclear war, it was between the United States and the Soviet Union. The crisis began on October 14, 1962 in that time John F. Kennedy was the president of U.S. The Russians refer this even to the Caribbean Crisis, but the Cubans people refers it to the October Crisis. This Crisis was taken in Cuba because the Soviet Union decide and the cubans were scared because of losing again like before. This made the cubans to agree to have them install it in their country which was a secret missile installation on Cuba. Due to this the Us found out about and decided to figth them and stop what they were doing along the way. Fianlly after all the conflict and tension thay decide to stop and just leave it alone of what had happened. The Soviet Union took ouht their installations out of cubaand the soviets went back to their place. This was due to the help of Nikita Khrushchev and Keneedy because they aggred of both decisions and stoped the crisis on keep going..

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
*Is an organization that includes countries in Europe and North America. A major reason for the formations of this organization was that they wanted the countriesto be involved in a mutual defense alliance. This meant that if one of them were attacked all the other countries in NATO would come to their aide. The NATO goal was to stop the Soviet Union's production of nuclear weapons. So the Soviet Union didn't want this to happen, they decided to create its own defensive alliance called the Warsaw Pact.

The Warsaw Pact was an alliance between the Soviet Union and its Satellite countries. This help the Soviet Union to keep a military personnel in the other countries and kept running a socialist government. These alliances were both strong and were able to avoid major conflicts to other nations.