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Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of communis.

2010-05-07T08:06:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-07T07:52:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-29T07:53:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-28T07:59:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-15T08:08:00.001-07:00

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

2010-04-12T07:59:00.000-07:00

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"

2010-03-24T08:18:00.000-07:00

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

Film Lesson: schindlers list

2010-03-24T08:02:00.000-07:00

schindlers list illustrated the holocaust because he wanted people to work for him that was healty and was able to move fast.He also didnt want people that was not healty enought to work so he would take them ande kill them because he knew that they was not in able to do the things that he wanted to be done.the most powerful scenes of the movie was when they was taken the childern away from there family and moved somewhere eles.Aniothber part was when the lilttle boy had to run for his life and hide in a toilte with 2 other childerns who was hiding.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

2010-02-25T07:55:00.000-08:00

Mustafa Kemal(aka Ataturk) was the 1st presdent of modern of turkey.he tryed to change turkey into a secular country. Secular means things that are pertaning to worldly things or not reguarded like regious or secerted.In other words it mean non regious.
Mustafa kemal was also know as truk.Mustafa was also a military and a politial leader who transformed what was left of the ottoman empire into morden turkey.The changes that he mad was he inturduce them to mathematics. The clothing that they where wearning was veils,and turbans.

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2010-02-24T08:20:00.001-08:00

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