Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid- was a segregation policy of government in Africa about blacks, whites, and indians. Blacks couldn't do many stuff as the whites did. The Africans and Whites had unfair citizenship rights. Apartheid was a separate development between the different races of Africa.

Nelson Mandela  became president of ANC. He later got rid of apartheid with 62 % votes on him. He declared free citizenship and no labor. He wanted equal rights between all races living in Africa. Nelson agreed to create a government and became part of the common wealth.

 

African Independence

One of the things that happened from the 1950's to 1970's in Africa was a lot of Independance. At first, the African continent was controlled by European countries athat colonized it. It was used as a place for resources for the European Industries. The Africans were tought the modern way to dress and the European Culture including language.
Most of the Africans didnt like that and from 1950 to 1980, the African countries had their independance back. Some of the leaders that helped accomplish this were Leopold Senghor who became the first president of Sengal. Nkrumah was also a famous president of Ghana. The Congo, algeria, and many other countries had gained their independence too. But after all the countries did, the society was weak. The Africans were not ready yet to establish their own democracy and government. They still had trouble in life and faced many civil wars.

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The U.S. and USSR were in the Cold war and during that time, both of them wanted to compete against each other with a space race. The Space race was a race bewteen USSR and US to go to the moon first. The USSR had a lead because they built the first Rocket Ship and had satellites.
The Americans got mad and wanted themselves to win the Space so they spent a lot of money into building NASA and required smart, intellegent, and healthy fit people to join. The Americans made it first to the moon by sending a monkey. The monkey landed on the moon and survived. So the Americans sent then humans since the monkey survived and the USSR got mad at us.

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

The NATO was a defensive pact from the USA with the European countries that were not communist which were the all of western europe. This happened because that way incase of an attack from Russia, the Americans will get some help. 

The Russians felt scared because of NATO. The Russians created the same defensive pact which was called the Warsaw pact with the eastern communist countries incase of an NATO attack.