African Independence

Before World War II, Africa was ruled by Great Britain, but then after World War II Africa was thinking why they were being ruled by another country and then began there own rebellion called the African Independence. After Africa gained there Independence from Great Britain they then realized that they do not know how to run there own countries in Africa. They then gathered up an amount of money to send certain people to Europe to gather up information to build up a government to run their country. Since that Africa is such a poor country they do not enough money to support a string enough government.

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

In class we have seen a film called The Right Stuff. It was a movie about the Cold War between the United States and The Soviet Union. The movie started when the Americans wanted to brake the sound barrier and had succeed. The Americans thought their were all that because they broke the sound barrier and know body didn't yet. Until later on the Russians launched the first satellite into space. The Americans were shocked when they heard this, so they retaliated back by sending a monkey into space. The Americans were laugh at but they succeeded in sending some thing in place, but the russians camed back at them and send a human into space. This place the Americans back into second place in the space race. Overall the Americans and the Soviet Union were at a race in building/creating new industrial materials to overcome everyone.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

After World War Two, another war have started which was the Cold War. It was a war about spreading communism and the Americans didn't not what that to occur. The Americans and Soviet Union were against each other in this war. The Americans then created an alliance called NATO "North Atlantic Treaty Organization"; this organization is applied with the United States and certain European countries who do not want to spread communism. Then the Soviet Union created their own allience which was called The Warsaw Pact; this allience was made up of countries who do want to spread communism around the world. These alliences were created to find which counties wanted communism and which didn't. The Americans believed that if communism started to spread everyone would want to change them selves into communists, which wasn't good.