♣ African Independence ♣

♣Explain how and why Africa changed so much in the 20 year period from 1955 t0 1975.♣

--> Africa changed in the past 20 years in the time period of 1955 to 1975 because of many reasons.in 1955 the British colonies decided to develop the first ever African colony in southern part of Africa which is Sahara so they could achieve their independence called the gold coast.It was a British colony.It was organized by kwame Nkrumah who organized the party so he would be able to help the gold coast free from the British. he made this happen by boycotting,protesting and striking against the British.And so due to all accepted and gave Independence to the gold coast and receiving its independence it took its name as Ghana and then Nkrumah became Ghana's first prime minster. In 1975 Africa had more independent countries than in 1955, because the Africans thought it was necessary to separate from Europe. Due to this it was more effective because there was independent countries in 1975. In a British colony named Kenya, their leader was Jomo Kenyatta who led them to independence. He spoke for the Kikuyu people who were let out of their land by the European settlers. However, Kenyatta refused to the MauMau ( was mainly to frigthen the white farmers to leave the highlands) connection so he was imprisoned by the British for a time for his refusal. In 1963, the British granted Kenya Independence, so Kenyatta became the first prime minister of an Independence Kenya. he worked very hard to unite the various ethic and language groups in the country.

9th Grade Review - Neolithic Revolution

--> Before the Neolithic Revolution there was another different society, these people were call nomads, most of the time they spend ed hunting and gathering plants, animals, instead they also made simple tools such as, spears and axes made from bone, wood, and stone.
Right after this time, came the Neolithic Revolution in which was a period of farming, domesticating animals, and agriculture was also introduced but in a modern way.
The Neolithic Revolution is a major turning point in human history, because it eventually rise of new civilizations, in order to discover the new world of progress and socialism.commercial Intensive agriculture is farming that involves large fields and numbers of animals, large resource, and a high level of mechanization.

The European Union

Explain the European Union.

--> The European union was a union of 27 states in Europe and was made in the 1992 by a treaty called the maasstricht treaty and was founded by the sixth member of the European economic community in 1957.It was an economic and political union.Later in the 1995 more countries decided to join like Austria,Finland,Sweden.Nine years later more countries decided to join like Czech republic,hungry,Malta,Lithuania,Poland,and Slovenia.When it finally got established the European union kept expanding the political scope of Europe economic community more in the fields of foreign and security policy.It provided them with the creation of the European bank and if currently what is called today a common euro.

Why was it a good thing?

--> It is a good thing because now in days when you are traveling to Europe its more easier and they wont stop you at the border and you wont get stropped every time you travel and wont have to show Ur passport and you can just keep going where ever you are going to go to.They where also allowed to work anywhere in Europe and before they couldn't they had to have jobs near where they lived.

The Right Stuff

--> In the film there was two different countries competing against each other.They had a space race which involved also trying to get the best astronauts and best rockets up in space.They also try ed to make better nuclear weapons.It was the USSR to first send a monkey to space and it was the us who was going to send the first human bring.The scene i think that Will help me remember is the scene where they where trying to see which spaceship was going to be the first to re fly to the moon and outer space and that their would be something to enable human to go into space as well.But the one that was winning was the us because they had better technology and they picked people that where qualified to go into space and they had allot of people working on only one project and made it better for them to be advanced.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Explain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

-->The Cuban missile crisis was a confrontation during the cold war between the Soviet union and the united states regarding the soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba.They where placed their in case so that they would be prepared planned by the united states.the crisis began because after the united states invasion of bay of pigs invasion and that the u.s. reconnaissance imagery revealing soviet nuclear missile installations on the island where presented to the us president john f Kennedy after the soviet premier announced that the missile installations would be dismantled.


What happened and why is it considered “the hottest moment in the Cold War”?

-->It was considered the hottest moment in the cold war because it came close to being a nuclear war.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

What were NATO and the Warsaw Pact?

-->The NATO pact was a military alliance established by the signing of a north Atlantic treaty which was on April 4,1949.It was an established system of security where its members where to state and agree to mutual defense in corresponding to any attack by any other party{external party}.it was in north America.The Warsaw pact was a organization containing most of central and eastern European communist states on may 1 1995.It was the counter alleged threat from the NATO alliance.It was a strong alliance that helped prevent major conflict.



Who formed these alliances and why?

-->Leaders from different nations decided to come together in order to gain more power and take over different parts of the world.And so they can avoid have major conflicts that would involve other country's and start another war.