African Indepence

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

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

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

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.