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Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism

2009-05-13T06:55:00.000-07:00

Mikhail Gorbachev was the youngest leader of the Soviet Union since Joseph Stalin. He had new ideas and reformations that Stalin didn't approve of. Mikhail's new policy glasnost was similar to America's freedom of speech, in the old government there was no freedom of speech but with this new policy he was able to give the people more freedom so they would support him more and stand by his side. Then Gorbachev passed another policy which was called perestroika which gave people the right to own private own businesses, with all these economical reforms and policy the Soviet Union was becoming more like its modern Russia

The Collapse of Communism

2009-05-12T07:09:00.000-07:00

During the cold war and much of the 60s the USSR and the US were the worlds superpowers. The reason why communism fell is because during the arms race they wasted most of their money trying to create nuclear weapons and their economy fell. The communist countries that supported the USSR also collapsed because they got most of their money from soviet Russia so that's why they collapsed with them and then 15 countries were created out of the USSR.

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

2009-05-05T07:00:00.000-07:00

In South Africa the people and government was under a policy called apartheid. Apartheid means to divide people based on race so it was basically segregation in Africa. Many oppose this policy because the non whites didn't have the same rights as the whites and they weren't able to vote in parliamentary elections. Growing up in Africa during the apartheid times were hard but one man wanted freedom this man was Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela started off his political career by being apart of the African National Congress. Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison but was freed in 1990 after spending 27 years in jail. Nelson Mandela was such a hero towards the people because he helped with the liberation of Africa and he helped end the Apartheid policy.

African Independence

2009-05-04T07:25:00.000-07:00

The reason why Africa gained their independence is because the British were too busy handling their own businesses with all the wars they fought they had too much to worry about so they let the Africans have their independence. After World War two the British had to worry about fighting the Germans and rebuilding. Also the African leaders had made their people very well educated. This the reasons why Africans were able to gain their independence.

The Right Stuff

2009-04-22T07:18:00.000-07:00

The U.S and the Soviet Union were in a space race. The movie showed Russia launch the first satellite sputnik it also showed battles between the U.s and Russia. When they launched their satellite the U.s were scared so they decided to put man into space. The part that will stick in my head the most was in the beginning when they try to break the sound barrier and the guys plane blows up and the other scene is when they actually do break the sound barrier.

Nato and the Warsaw Pact

2009-04-06T07:12:00.000-07:00

NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This organization was created so that if the countries in it were attacked by the Soviet union the other countries would jump in and help. The Soviet union made a counter organization cqalled the Warsaw pact. The Soviet union wanted to stop capitalism from spreading.

Schindlers list

2009-03-27T07:26:00.001-07:00

Schindler's list showed a different side to the holocaust but it did a good job portraying it. I think the one scene that will stick in mi head the most is when they are burning all the Jews bodies and a Nazis yelling and going crazy, him yelling pretty much showed how killing millions of people isn't normal and it will drive you insane. I think Schindler made a pretty noble thing getting all his workers back when they were sent to Auschwitz and how he made sure the children were coming back with their parents as well. The scene when they were liquidating the Jews from the ghetto that scene was brutal and cruel how they would go into the houses and see the Jews were hiding and just kill them brutally. Schindler's list did a very good job portraying the Holocaust.

Night and Fog

2009-03-26T06:58:00.000-07:00

The film Night and fog had some pretty disgusting parts, it showed people carrying the dead bodies and holding heads. It also shows how the Jew's tried to claw their way out of gas chambers and it showed how fingernails were on the concrete ceiling. The documentary portrayed the harsh facts behind the Holocaust and was a lot more gruesome than Schindler's list. Since Schindler's list was longer it was able to show more things about the holocaust but they both did a good job showing how cruel it was.

2009-02-24T07:17:00.000-08:00

The treaty of Versailles affected Germany in a major way. It said that Germany had to take blame for starting the war and for the casualties, it also stripped Germany of their land and their overseas colonies like some places of the spice islands and it took away parts of Africa and they had to pay for damages . The Treaty also limited Germany's military they were only allowed to have 100 thousand soldiers. Germany was in so much debt from the treaty that they wanted vengeance so then came the rise of Adolf Hitler. I think the treaty was unfair and just put the blame on Germany who didn't even start the war.

Mustafa Kemal and the Modernization of Turkey

2009-02-11T07:14:00.000-08:00

Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881 in Salonica which use to be part of the ottoman empire and it is now a city in greece. Mustafa Kemal was a military leader and a hero he lead the turks out of a liberation struggle and led them to freedom. In his idea of modernization education and government played a big role.Mustafa kemal was president for 15 years until he died in 1938 he was a great leader to his people and adapted the name attaturk which means father of the turks.

Gandhi

2009-02-10T07:00:00.000-08:00

Gandhi helped the Indians gain independence by teaching the Indian people civil disobedience which is refusing the British laws using peace. Gandhi used peace as his main weapon, he knew that if he used non violent protests he will get the British to attack them and the British would be the bad people. Gandhi also constructed the salt march which was the protest against the salt tax and Gandhi and the Indian people walked 240 miles to walk to the Indian ocean to get the salt from the water. Gandhi was a great leader to his people, some people did hate the fact he was trying to make the Hindus and Muslim join together in India and that's what led to his assassination

The Russian Revolution

2009-01-09T06:40:00.000-08:00

The Russian Revolution was after the Russians withdrew from WWI and was also when the Russian people were fed up with their czar and decided to overthrow him, it was also the start of communism. During the Russian revolution there were series of other revolutions within it like the February revolution and the October revolution/Bolshevik revolution. The February revolution was when the Russian people removed their czar Nicholas II, their wasn't much uprising during this revolutions but them removing the czar and having a temporary government after.
The Bolshevik revolution was led by Vladamir Lenin who's ideas were similar to Karl Marx. Lenin spread the ideas of communism and the people supported his ideas because they knew it was time for change.

The Opium Wars

2008-12-10T06:47:00.000-08:00

During the Opium wars the Chinese and the British were trading goods for each other . The British wanted the tea that the Chinese had but they refused so the British gave them opium so they can get addicted to it and they can trade the opium for tea. When the Chinese emperor figured out opium was addictive and killing off the population they decided to end opium trade and the British got upset and decided to attack the Chinese people. The Chinese lost the first opium war because of their lack in modern weapons and technology and they were unaware of the British surprise attack. They signed the treaty of Nanjing and that was what led to the seond opium war.

2008-12-03T06:45:00.000-08:00

Some hardships that the Europeans faced during their expedition through Africa is that they were attacked by tribes that existed in the dessert area and many bugs like mosquito's that would malaria. In the film John Speke was being bit by bugs and one crawled into his ear. Lake Victoria is named after a British queen because it was founded by two British men John Speke and Richard Burden. Africa was easily conquered because the Europeans established automatic weapons like machine guns and the African people was still using spears and that's how they were able to conquer the Africans so easily.

Meiji Restoration of Japan

2008-11-26T06:38:00.000-08:00

Matthew Perry bullied the Japanese by showing off his military power and his naval ships to try and intimidate them and show how advanced and modernized the west was compared to Japan. The U.S and Japan signed a treaty saying that japan had to open up their ports for trade and Japan tried to fight off the Europeans because they didn't want to trade with them but they lost the battles because of Europe's technology. Before the U.S came to japan they were an isolationist and cut themselves off from the rest of the world and they were still fighting with swords on horses while the west was using machine guns and japan still had the same government they had years ago. Japan was an archipelago, which is a small group of islands it was easier for people to trade with japan this way.

2008-11-06T06:37:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx felt that it wasn't fair for the workers this is why he created Communism. Karl Marx set the basic rules for Communism like people getting equal pay and having the same rights because he wanted to get rid of the idea of Capitalism and Capitalist A communist country was ruled by its people and the people should get the same rights and pay no matter wat job .

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

2008-11-05T06:46:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx believed that the factories should be owned by the workers and not the landlords he helped the workers unite to form a world wide revolution. He believed all workers should share wealth which means everyone should get paid an equal amount he also believed that workers had become an appendage to the machines which means after they would finish work they would repeat and make similar motions as if they were still controlling the machine because the constantly repeated the same thing over and over again for about 16 hours or so.
Karl Marx also felt that since there were more workers than owners the workers would get fed up and revolt and just start a revolution to take control and he actually encouraged this idea. With the idea off communism everyone would get paid the same amount of money and there is no social class so everyone gets treated equal and everything is controlled by the government so you cant have any private owned businesses.
So Karl Marx idea of the Industrial revolution is that he felt it wasn't fair to the workers and that's how they cam up with the idea of communism.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

2008-10-16T06:36:00.000-07:00

Nationalism is having pride for your country it was also the start of world war one. During the 1800s many people decided to make nation-states. Nationalist weren't loyal to kings or the government they were loyal to the people and fought for their rights as citizens. Nationalist spoke about unity, freedom and gaining right of independence.
Nationalism was how Italy got to become a country. Nationalism was the how many countries became countries, most countries were all formed together with an empire and as nationalism started to grow empires were getting destroyed n countries started to rise up. Italy was unified from 1858-1870. Italy was unified by Cavour after he defeated the Austrians with the help of the French army.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

2008-10-10T06:38:00.000-07:00

Simon Bolivar was a famous person because he led the people of South America to freedom and revolution. The counrty Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar because he had wiped out the Spanish army and freed the Bolivian people from the Spanish that's why they named the country Bolivia in his honor. He helped fight the Spanish army who had control over south America for more than 500 years all of South America and Central America gained their freedom by the 1900s. Bolivar was fighting for the independence of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia. Simon Bolivar was influenced by the Enlightenment, the French and the Americans gaining freedom and he wanted to reform his own country of Venezuela.

Robespierre and the Reign of Terrer

2008-09-23T06:40:00.000-07:00

The Reign of Terror began shortly after the French revolution. Soon after the kings queens and the nobles lost power things began to be more democratic but the people who gained power didn't use it very well. Then this street gang called the Jacobin's started to run France and used the guillotine to kill all the people who they suspected were against them and they ended up killing King Louis the XVI. Then some one else rose to power a man name Maximilien Robespierre. He acted as a dictator and started to cut every ones heads off with the guillotine and wiped out all traces of the old monarchy's and thought the churches were old fashion so they remained closed and he also altered the calender by removing Sundays.

The French Revolution

2008-09-22T06:40:00.000-07:00

1. The peasants didnt like the fact that the nobles and the clergy payed no taxes and didnt believe believe the king cared about them.

2. The French peasants mainly complained about paying high taxes and being the only people that had to be in the military.

3. The cartoon is explaining that the peasant is holding the king and the noble on his back. Its stating the peasant has to support the kind and the nobles because with out them paying their taxes and being in the military.

4. Its just stating that the French man has to pay heavy taxes and give up a lot of livestock and grain. He said that the taxes are crushing them.

5. I say it does show why they resented the rich because the rich didn't pay taxes despite having way more money and some one with hand skills like a master carpenter got payed less than a typical priest.

6. The people that would be most influenced by a democratic form of government would be the U.S becuase after we got our freedom they were trying to find out what form of government to have and they came up with a democracy.

7. I think it was banned because it went against everything the French believed in and it was banned probably by the king because why would he not want absolute control over his people.

John Locke and the Enlightenment

2008-09-18T06:42:00.000-07:00

John Locke was the most famous person during the enlightenment. The enlightenment was influenced by the scientific revolution and new things were taking place like there were no longer kings and monarchs and John Locke believed in a government ran by the people which is a democracy. He had a very modern view of the world and thought that every one in the world was born equally. He also said if the government failed to do its job helping and benefiting the citizens they had the right to overthrow them.

The basis of the U.S Constitution was thought of because of the enlightenment, they talked about separation of powers which is similar to the checks and balances that the U.S government has.
So in other words the U.S got most of their ideas from the Constitution and declaration of independence from the enlightenment and John Locke.

Trial of Galileo

2008-09-12T06:46:00.000-07:00

The trail of Galileo was about Galileo getting arrested for agreeing with Copernicus theory of the sun being the center of the universe and not the earth . He was sentenced to trial after agreeing with that theory because of the churches believing that the center of the universe was earth and not the sun, during those times you couldn't oppose to the churches judgement so he was arrested. Galileo was able to find out that the theory through a telescope and it showed him that the earth was the one revolving because the sun doesn't rotate it stands there, so he believed in Copernicus theory and this was called heliocentric.

Geocentric was the theory that earth was the center of the universe and everything else revolved around it. Geocentric started before heliocentric was approved, heliocentric was approved by the church in 1664. So the church believed in geocentric up until 1664 when it was approved that the earth and everything around it revolved around the sun.

Scientific Method

2008-09-11T06:39:00.000-07:00

The Scientific Method is a method used to test experiments. In the scientific method there are five steps that are used in sequence to gain information about the subject tested. Scientist used this type of method to gain quick information about the test subject or theory. The five steps in the scientific method are Scientific Theory, Hypothesis testing, Hypothesis building, Analysis and Observation. Each of the steps are taken and used to collect data and if there is a problem while testing the subject they can always backtrack and see what went wrong while testing.

Scientists used the scientific method to prove or disprove many of the theories that old scientist believed in because you cant just accept something without proof. Scientist are alwasys trying to prove eachothers theories its so we cana correct their mistakes because everyone makes mistakes like Aristotles theory he didnt teste probably so thats why it was proven wrong.

Evolution vs Creation

2008-09-05T06:46:00.000-07:00

The Theory of Evolution started when Charles Darwin believed that everything came from a common ancestor. He believed that a thing called natural selection was a cause of the genetic mutations within the animal or plant, like if a mother species was able to fly it would pass on these attributes to the offspring therefore passing it down from generation to generation. The species going through natural selection will eventually die out thus the reason why there are extinct animals and plants.

Now Creationism is a religious belief that everything on the earth was made by God. Creationism rejected Darwin's Theory of Evolution and the evolution theory was banned from teaching and not allowed in public text books until the 1960s. There has yet to be a conclusion whether or not which theory is true and scientist today still cannot find an answer to these puzzling theories.

What my opinion is to these theories are that they are both correct in their on way. I think this because if the evolution theory says we came from this micro organism where did that one organism come from it couldn't have popped out of no where so i believe it was placed there by God and it slowly evolved into grass, trees, animals,and eventually humans. So basically my theory is they both worked together to bring life on earth.

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2008-09-04T07:08:00.000-07:00

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