African Independence

Africa changed alot during the period of 20 years. There were more independent countries than colonies after the 20 years that passed. Most of the African Countries that under some sort of rule, they were under the rule of European rule. Most of Africa was ruled under England powers. Shortly after World War two, they were ready to transfer their government. So after wards, two rulers in Africa started to take over. They started taking over little by little. First it was Jomo Kenyatta that started an African revolution. He started taking over whats now called Kenya. Doing so he started the Mau Mau rebellion. The Mau Mau consisted of mostly the Kikyuyu farmers that were forced out of highlands by the British people. Instead of using violence the point of this Mau Mau rebellion was to simply scare the white farmers out of their highland so they could get their farmland back. By the time Kenya had won their independence from Britain more than 10000 Kenyans were killed. After winning their independence, Kenyetta became the leader of the Kenya. He worked very hard to unite the Kenyans and then died in 1978. Afterwards Kenya never had that same success ruling Kenya as Kenyatta did.
Another ruler that took over Africa was Moise Tshombe. He took over a region in the south eastern part of Kantaga. It was full of minerals and soils. He tried to take over those lands but people of Africa didnt want him to take over because that land was important because of the minerals and stuff. This was known as the Tshombe's rebellion. In the end, Africa is now as we know it.

Film lesson- "The right stuff"

In global class during ninth period, we watched a movie! It was called "The Right Stuff". It took place during the Cold war. The United States was competing with USSR to see who would go into Space first, also known as the space race. Russia was winning the competition because they technically sent a person into space first while the United States send a monkey into space. The United States went through a process in which they will find out which people were capable of going into space and bring it home for the United States. They would go through a list of men that were up to be one of the spacemen going into space. It was in a hospital in which they got tested and they would sort of shock the persons fingers and make them squirm around. Then they would tell them "Thank you" and call up the next person. It was kind of weird how they would be tested. After they narrowed down the list, the men would then be put in machines in which they would be shaken i guess to see if they can resist the no gravity in space. This scene from the movie helps me remember the cold war.
After they announced the seven that would be the lucky ones going into space, they would still have to go through training while NASA would be testing out spaceships. It was pretty funny how it would just take off and den go in a circle and come back down. It was a fail for the first few months and then finally they think they have it and then only the top of the spaceship would come off. So then Russia would send the first human into space while the United States send up a monkey up in space 3 weeks later. After they were made fun of for sending a monkey, they decided to bring back the 7 spacemen that were originally chosen to go up for the United States. Thats all that we saw that day.

NATO and the warsaw pact

NATO was a sort of like an alliance between North America and Europe. It basically said that if one country inside the NATO was attacked, the other countries that were also part of this will come to help them out the best way they can. They will also help out financially so that they can rebuild after world war two and they can get their army back to the way it was. It was supposed to go as planed under the Marshall plan. It was a way to protect their alliance during the cold war and if any war should have occurred during the cold war. While the Soviet Unions alliances worsened NATO had gotten stronger.
Events during the year 1968 in Czechoslovakia made them view NATO as a source of protection against their war enemies. Then in the year 1979, they made up a new program that will hopefully build up their defense all while trying to stop the Soviet Union from using nuclear weapons.
The Warsaw Pact was a response to the NATO. This involved Soviet Union and their satellite countries which were countries that surrounded it. The leader of this pact was ,of course, the Soviet Union. They made the rest of the countries inside this pact to follow their lead and run socialist governments. All of this was to hopefully strengthen the Soviet Union, they claimed power in 1955. This pact was renewed in 1980 in hopes it would continue for the next 20 years. Sadly the Warsaw Pact was officially claimed non-existent in 1991.