Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

The Apartheid is a racist segregation in South Africa where the people who weren't white would not have the same privilege as the white people had. This was a policy in the government from 1948 until 1994. Even if you were a mix of white and another race, the government still wouldn't have given an exception and give you what the white people get. The white people had it easy while the other race didn't get much. Africa is the home of Africans but the white people took over and made it theirs.

Nelson Mandela was a hero and still is one to the Africans because he was one of the leaders that fought for his people's right. Nelson wanted to fight for Africans could have their independence and their rights, so they would not be treated as seconds. Africa is their country, Nelson Mandela and all the Africans believed that they should be given rights and were allowed to do anything, which is true. Since the white had more power, they didn't care what they thought but Nelson Mandela didn't let that get to him and fought to get his people their rights. Even while sentenced in death he still gave hope to others and didn't give up on giving his people what they deserved. He was a strong leaders like all the other leaders out there that never gave up and fought for what they wanted without backing down. Nelson Mandela wasn't just admired by the people of Africa but also admired by the authors of the article. This is because Nelson Mandela is an inspiration for them, because they see how Mandela never lost any hope for getting what him and his people wanted.

African Independence

Africa has changed plenty over the past 20 years. During 1955 Africa had no independence and were being controlled by European nation. The Europeans would come into Africa with the Africans having no say what so ever. It wasn't fair that the European nation takes over Africa and making it theirs, but they didn't care and just took everything from Africa and made it theirs. By 1975 the Africans were tired of it and fought to gain their independence, yet there were few who didn't mind because the Europeans gave them new things and made Africa better. There was still the ones who hated it because it was their country and had no say into whether they allowed the Europeans to come into their land and take their natural resources. They still fought for their independence and were able to get it. Some of the leaders who fought for Africa's independence would have to be Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Nelson Mandela of South Africa.

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

"The Right Stuff" was a competition between the the US and the USSR, the United States were the US and Russia was the USSR. They both wanted to get to space first but there was only one winner and this movie told us who was the winner. Both countries wanted their technology to be superior and after one country did something big the next must be even bigger. First the United States broke the sound system but they didn't want to say anything about it. Later on Russia sent the first satellite into space, and the United States wanted to beat them so they sent a monkey into space because they didn't want to hurt anyone. By beating that Russia had sent a man into space a few weeks later. That was big to everyone, bigger than sending the monkey into space. So to beat that the United States sent a man into space as well but he was the first man to go to the moon. The scene that would help me remember the Cold War event is when they were in the conference room trying to figure out how to beat the Russians. How the Americans would show what the Russians were doing and how the Americans really wanted to be ahead. That scene was unforgettable because it would show that the Americans were informed and would think about how to beat the Russians.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance organization of the United States, Western Europe and Canada. All of the 12 nations had agreed to protect each other so that communism would not spread further more. NATO did not want the idea of Communism going to other countries and taking over the world so for that to happen NATO made sure that the other countries would disagree with communism. The Warsaw Pact is a soviet version of the NATO which would promise that they would protect the Communist countries from the Western attack. The Soviet's created the Warsaw Pact because the Soviets were scared of the NATO.