Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of communis.

When Mikhai Gorbachev came to power as a general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union (CPSU) on march 11 1985 drastic reforms were demanded if the faltering USSR was to remain as a superpower still able to compete with its arch-rival, the United States. Enmeshed in Afghanistan, threatened by the `New Cold War', with a hawk Ronald Reagan in the White House, the economy was in free fall and living standards were plummeting. Gorbachev's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, has already concluded that reforms were needed, but he fell fatally ill before he could.

the collapse of communsism

Stunning events between 1989 and 1991 that led to the fall of communist regimes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Faced with massive popular opposition and the unwillingness of President Mikhail Gorbachev to send Soviet troops to their rescue, communist governments lost power, first in Poland, where the communists agreed to free elections that swept into power candidates endorsed by Solidarity in June 1989. Demands for reform spread across east germany berlin wall and the unification of East and West Germany.November 1989 the communist government of Czechoslovakia resigned, and in December a violent revolution led to the overthrow and execution of Romania's communist boss, Nicolae Ceausescu. The Bulgarian parliament revoked the Communist party's monopoly on power in 1990, and in 1991 popular opposition forced the resignation of the communist cabinet in Albania. The failure of a communist-led against Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in August 1991 ended the party's control of the military and government. in the fall of 1989 and led to the end of the

nelson meldelan apartied

apartied is was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the national party government in south africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority of the blacks inhabitants of south africa was curtailed and ruled by the whites.

african independence

Africa had changed throughout the years because after  World War II fought alongside the Europeans to defend freedom. That experience made the people unwilling to accept 

colonial domination when they returned to there family. The postwar world 

changed the thinking of the Europeans too. They had begone to question the 

cost of maintaining their colonies abroad. After the World War II, many of the european countries was ready to transfer the government to the african people. all the europeans the question was when and how to do things like that. 

film lesson the right stuff

they where competing to see who woulsd be the frist person in space man or monkey.the frist person to go in space was the monkey.the ussr was the winning team because they sent the monkey out frist and the the us sent the man.Even thought the us was the frist to break the sound barrier they didnt want it to be known because it happened two years later after the world war 2

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

the NATO is stand for North Alantic Tready Organization it was build to start an organization that includes europe and north america. The reason was that the formation of NATO was that the countries wanted a mutual defense alliance. so if one of them was attacked all of the other countries would come to there aide.THE WARSAW PACT was mostly the soviet union and there sateille countries. ot was suppose to be another mutual defense like the nato and was created in respond to it

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

My reaction to the night and fog was upseting because of the way they had treated people.
The way that i felt about this flim was hurt because they were killing people for no reason and taken them away from there kids and family.the noght in the fog