African Independence

African began going from coloions to country's in 1955. In 1975 more thn 1/2 of african became a country.Between the two world wars, an educated middle class had begun to emerge in African cities. Some African Americans such as W. E. B. Du Bois as well as by older Africans like Blaise Diagne, who organized Pan-African congresses in 1919 and 1921. One of the movement’s leaders, Leopold Senghor became the first president of Senegal. African soldiers in World War II fought with Europeans to defend freedom. The postwar world changed the thinking of Europeans too. They began to question the cost of maintaining their colonies abroad.

The European Union

The EU is a very good thing. It makes the EU easyier to travel. Easyier to trade good with between each other. This was an alliance of 25 nations that has changed Europe. This union has been so successful that it has created a new superpower in the world. The only two super powers in the world today are the EU and the US (after the USSR's fallin 91'). It is like the US, but now the states are countrys. It also made trading money easyier because the euro was made within the EU. It prevents the European nations from going to war also.

9th Grade Review - Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution is a agricultural revolution that is the change from nomadic hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement. The first agricultural revolution had major social changes. It increasied population density, the organization of a hierarchical society, standing armies, state institutions, barter, trade and the expansion of human "control" over nature.
In particular, in opposition to the moveable personal property and communal property of the nomadic hunter-gatherer, a new way of life began that introduced private property, private ownership of land and buildings, valuable artifacts. Slavery also started in human evolution, in almost all continents, where captured humans were considered as "things", the private property of wealthy individuals and families. Also introduced inheritance and marriage.

Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

They were competing to get the first man to space. Then the bigger picture was to be able to build the first rocket to fly into space. The competition was being won by the USSR they were the first to get a man into space. We were the first to have a mockey into space and was the sencond to have the man into space, but the first to be on the moon was the americas and from there we were winning and then won the competition because the USSR failed. The scenes from the flim would have to be the first rocket space blown up, and the monkeys being test and being the first one into space.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO is an organization formed by the Europeans and all of North America. The formation of NATO was that the countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come to their aide. The Warsaw Pact was made up of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. It was another defense alliance like NATO. The Soviet Union had military men in the other countries of the alliance to have them running socialist governments. This attempt to strengthen the Soviet Union's hold on its satellite countries was only one of its ways.

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. In April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had an idea of placing missiles in Cuba. In the summer of 1962 the Soviet Union worked quickly and secretly to build its missiles in Cuba. On October 22, Kennedy announced the discovery of the missile installations to the public and his decision to quarantine the island. On the 25th Kennedy quarantine back the line and raised military readiness to DEFCON 2. Then on the 26th EX-COMM heard from Khrushchev in an impassioned letter. He proposed removing Soviet missiles and personnel if the U.S. would guarantee not to invade Cuba. October 27 a U-2 was shot down over Cuba and EX-COMM received a second letter from Khrushchev demanding the removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey in exchange for Soviet missiles in Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy suggested ignoring the second letter and contacted Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to tell him of the U.S. agreement with the first. That is what they did and