Monica's Global blog

the collapse of commuism

2010-05-10T17:09:00.000-07:00

well communism collapse cause the russians and european where tired of having the same things and working super hard to end up having the same things or same pay, so they wanted what we had what americans had they wanted captialism so it took them three years to turn russia into a capticalism country.

Mikhail Gorbachev

2010-05-10T16:46:00.000-07:00

Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of Russia. He was so far the youngest president who was at age 54. Mikhail decided that since Russia was a totalitarian state, and nothing was getting done, he thought that he should open up Russia more so that free fresh new ideas will come and make Russia more economic and new with social reforms. This was called the "Glasnost". This was to promote Openness in Russia.

In 1985, Gorbachev decided to make something new called "Peristrokia". This was to make economic reforms. Local managers gained full rights to their farms and property and people were allowed to own privately owned small businesses. So that way this could help with creating jobs.

Also it helped take down the Berlin wall and end communnism.

When Mikhail sergeyevich Gorbachev came to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPSU on 11 March 1985 drastic reforms were demanded if the faltering USSR was to remain a superpower still able to compete with its arch-rival, the United States. Enmeshed in Afghanistan, threatened by the New Cold War, with Ronald Regan in the White House, the economy was in free fall and living standards were plummeting.

African Indepence

2010-04-29T17:43:00.000-07:00

World War II, the European countries were ready to transfer government to the Africans but they didn't know how, the Africans wanted to be elected not nominated and represtatives. The Africans wanted "freedom now." The leader of the nonviolent protests was Kwame Nkrumah, he was a teacher and he spent serval years studing in the U.S. In the 1940's he worked on liberating the Gold Coast from the British, Kwame Nkrumah made boycotts and organized strikes. but he was imprisoned by the British often, but his efforts were a success. In 1957 the Gold Coast recived it's independence and was renamed Ghana. Nkrumah became the first prime minister and later president for life of Ghana. I am not a whore. British settlers took over farmland of the northern highlands of Kenya, they resisted independence of Kenya, they were forced to accept black self government. One strong leader of Kenyan nationalist was Jomo Kenyatta, he was a "Kikuyu" educated in London. He was imprisoned by the British also but then in 1963 Kenya won it's independence, a negative part of this was the more then 10,000 black Kenyans were killed and 100 Kenyans were killed. Kenyatta became president of Kenya, he worked hard to unite the different ethincs and languages in the country. Kenyatta died in 1978. In 1955 Africa was mainly colonies there were 5 independent countries, by 1975 Most of Africa was full of independent countries, except 3.

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

2010-04-29T17:20:00.000-07:00

Apartheid-a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.

Nelson Mandela- born july 18 1918 president of south africa from 1994-1999 the first South African president to be elected in a fully democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of , the armed wing of the (ANC). The south african courts convicted him on charges of as well as other crimes committed while he led the movement against apartheid. In accordance with his conviction's sentence, Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela supported reconciliation and negotiation, and helped lead the transition towards multi-racial democracy in South Africa.

The Right Stuff

2010-04-14T09:32:00.000-07:00

First russia built the first rocket ship spaceship, so america started to built one, then they sended the first monkey in space. so russia sended the first human in space so america wanted to do better so we sended the moon. we won the spacerace but the russia had the lead cause they did everything first. i remeber the scenes when they were buliding the spaceships and they kept expolding and the part when they were testing the guys to be rocketmen they needed to be the smartest most fitest most logical and some other stuff to be asotranaut its was pretty cool. i actually liked this movie alot

NATO

2010-04-12T09:30:00.000-07:00

NATO, america creatured so communism wouldnt be world wide. Communism started in russia in 1917. but america tried to stop the eastern countrys from becoming communism, cause there plan was to make the whole world communism but america didnt like that idea so they went to war with country european eastern countrys.

night and fog

2010-03-24T17:50:00.000-07:00

Night and Fog was a very powerful document. its most of taken alot of guts to go back and see it all over again in those camps. well night and fog was made 10 years after the camps and the war was over by a french man, the words the narrator said were very powerful and showing all the camps and the enterance sigh all of it and showing us before and after scence when i saw this movie it made me wonder what all those people went thought for 6 years, and actually i kind of noticed that some of the scences from night and fog were on schindlers list, like that train scence and the enterance sign and the bathroom scence with the dead bodies one. like im saying this movie is powerful and some scences are graffic.

schindler's list

2010-03-24T09:35:00.000-07:00

the movie schindler list illustrated the holocaust, because the movie gave us the veiwers an idea the holocaust was like. how much those people worked, suffer and how many people died in 6 years. just by seeing the movie i saw everything the jews went thought and everything that happened during those 6 years of war and fighting. i think the scence that got the most to me was the part when the german took the little kids away to kill them. it most of been tuff for all those women to know that they werent going to see there children anymore. i know that if i was in the situtation i would probably die. and another scence was when they sended the women to the wrong camp, the germans cut the women hairs about to burn them schindler reached them and got there women, but the german wanted to kill the children but schindler lied to save the little girls lives. unlike the other nazis schindler cared about thw jews he helped them out and everything, unlike the germans he didnt killed them or anything. so he was a good nazi.

Treaty of Versailles

2010-03-02T18:48:00.000-08:00

the treaty of versaille effected germany alot. the treaty stated that germany was suppose to give up some of there land. there was no more army men, and they took all arms weapons. September 10, 1919, established the Republic of Austria, consisting of the truncated, German-speaking regions of the Habsburg state. The Austrian Empire ceded crown lands to newly established successor states like Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, renamed Yugoslavia in 1929. It also relinquished the South Tyrol, Trieste, Trentino, and Istria to Italy, and Bukovina to Romania. An important tenet of the treaty barred Austria from compromising its newly formed independence, which effectively barred it from unification with Germany, an aspiration long desired by PGermanists and an aim actively advocated by Austrian-born Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Nazi Party. The other portion of the Dual Monarchy, Hungary also became an independent state: under the terms of the Treaty of Trianon June 4, 1920, Hungary ceded Transylvania to Romania; Slovakia and Transca rpathian Rus to the newly formed Czechoslovakia; and other Hungarian crown lands to the future Yugoslavia. The Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Sevres on August 10, 1920, ending hostilities with the Allied Powers; but shortly thereafter a Turkish War of Independence began. The new Republic of Turkey,established in its aftermath, signed a superseding Treaty of Lausane in 1923 effectively partitioning the old Otoman Empire.

gandhi blog

2010-02-24T13:26:00.000-08:00

gandhi was a man who fought for those indians and there freedom. being overthorn by the bristish gandhi went on a strack ans told all indians not to buy clothes, food, or anything from the english cause if they didnt want to give india indepence then they dont need anything from the brisitsh. gandhi would walk ten miles a day with his people to go make salt instead of buying it from the bristish. gandhi is a man whos been threw alot for his people.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

2010-02-24T09:36:00.000-08:00

mustafa kemal is a man who became president of tukery after they where at the end of the war.he was like the tukeren george washington this man that tukery can be independent. he had six princples they where republicism, popularism, secularism, reformism, nationlism, statism. they wherr called the six aros all tukeren were to follow these rule, he instited that they dressed like americans men wear hats a suit with jackets and they normal school. he also gave women the ablity to vote so thats how he showed he made tukery independent.

secularism means when Religious skepticism or indifference.

testt

2010-02-03T09:52:00.001-08:00

test hehe