Mikhail Gorbachev and the collaspe communism

When Mikhail sergeyevich Gorbachev came to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPSU on 11 March 1985 drastic reforms were demanded if the faltering USSR was to remain a superpower still able to compete with its arch-rival, the United States. Enmeshed in Afghanistan, threatened by the New Cold War, with Ronald Regan in the White House, the economy was in free fall and living standards were plummeting.

The Collapse of Communism

Communism didn't end. The Soviet system collapsed in the late 1980s, and many people hailed that as an end to communism. However, the Soviet system was a form of state socialism not communism, countries like China and Cuba which are expressly communist still exist, and many modern democratic nations have strong communist parties participating in their governments.

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

He turned to violent acts when the government banned the anc, instead of giving up the fight against apartheid. Before he was imprisoned he said a speech in court. During his speech he mentioned that he was willing to die for his cause ending apartheid, this gained him respect and supporters whilst he was in prison. These supporters campaigned against apartheid for mandela whilst he was in prison. In the end the government couldn't take any more of the struggle due to isolation of sport and economic sanctions, so they offered Mandela a release if he would in return stop the anti-apartheid campaigners. Mandela did not accept this offer, he said he will not leave prison unless apartheid is stopped. Eventually the government agreed, Mandela was released after 27 years of being in prision, and this was the beginning of the ending of apartheid. Soon after he was released Blacks gained the right to vote, Mandela was elected president, he could then put blacks rights into use let black and white people in South Africa live together in harmony.

Film Lesson: "Night And Fog"

Night and fog was a movie that you can seem bodies left behind by the victims. You can see the crematoria or the "hospital". You can see flashbacks and see the cabins. Everything is left only you can't see the sounds, cries and hopelessness of the people. The camp is alone and quiet. This film is a very impactful because while the man is visiting the camp they show flashbacks and videos of the time were the Jews still lived in the camp. I thought, that the film was successful in getting it's point across. Schindler's List,in my opinion was just as good as the documentary, or maybe even better. I liked the movie slightly more because the movie, I felt gave me a better understanding of the Holocaust and all the suffering the Jews went through. The movie, showed them starting in the ghetto, and how people hid and how many were shot and killed. I thought the movie was more effective because, It showed us how everything progressed from the beginning. This is why I liked the movie better. They showed us the journey of the people from beginning to end. Overall I feel that the hollywood version was more effective because I was able to understand the overall concept better.

The Right Stuff (1983)

What "The Right Stuff" was basically about was the age where the cold war was being made. When the russians and the americans were in the war. The americans sent a monkey to space using the first space ship, while the russians used an actual human to go into space, but both of the space ships drastically crashed and both were destroyed. the ones who were leading the competition was the americans because they were the firsts ones to go to the moon at the time, while the russians werent able to go up there.

Films Lessons "Schindler's List"

The movie basically showed how the holocaust was treated during world war 2. It was the biggest Genocide that the world has come to and nothing has beaten it as of today. over six million plus people were murdered because of the fact that no one that didn't have blonde hair, blue eyes can live in germany. Schindler was a general who had jews work for him during labor. 

Nato and the Warsaw Pact

The NATO organization was an organization which included the countries of Europe and North America. This formation lead because the countries that were involved wanted a Mutual defense alliance, which meant that if one of the Nato countries was attacked, it meant that all the countries that involved in the NATO alliance were going to help the attacked country. The Warsaw Pact was an alliance created in May of 1955, in which meant that the countries in eastern Europe were together until 1991. Countries such as Russia, Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Etc. The only reason these pacts were created, was to enforce the rule to keep all the countries from not being taken down from the enemy country during the cold war.