Thursday, April 29, 2010

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was the first elected president of south africa from 1994 till 1999
born 18 july 1918 he was fully was elected in a fully representative democratic election
he was an anti-apartheid activist and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe (spear of nation
mandela served in prison for 27 years all those his years were spend on robben island

he's descendant of thembu dynasty one of the well know dynasties in africa 
his father died when he was 9 

Days of mandela in the prison 

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Days of Mandela while elected president of South Africa 

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

African Independence

during the late 19th africa was divided with european powers all the powers of west and etc
Cecil Rhodes get some credits for the freedom of africa's independence 

The Year When African Countries Gained Their

 Independence

1847

Liberia

1951

Egypt

1956

Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco

1957

Ghana

1958

Guinea

1960

Chad, Benin, Nigeria, Ivory Coast,

 MadagascarCentral African Republic, Mali,

 Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, 

Mauritania, Togo, Zaire,

 Somalia,

 Congo,

 Gabon, Cameroon

1961

Sierra Leone, South Africa (recognized as the

 Republic of South Africa, the 

indigenous people

 (Black Africans), were living under

 apartheid, and thus not

 truly independent)

1962

Algeria, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda

1963

Kenya, Tanzania

1964

Malawi, Zambia

1965

Gambia

1966

Botswana, Lesotho

1968

Equatorial Guinea, 

Mauritius, Swaziland

1969

Guinea-Bissau, Libya

1975

Angola, Cape Verde, Comoros,

 Mozambique, Sao Tome

1976

Seychelles

1977

Djibouti

1980

Zimbabwe

1990

Namibia

1994Indigenous Africans —
 Black Africans —
free from apartheid in South Africa

Cecil Rhodes standing on africa and acting as puppet master 

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

nato and Warsaw Pact

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

After World War II the countries of Western Europe found themselves too weak politically and militarily to prevent the spread of the communist "iron curtain" on a national level. The alliance of France and the United Kingdom through the Brussels Treaty was found to be minuscule when compared to the Communist Soviet Union. Very little time passed before this weakness was realized and Western Europe turned to a more inclusive North Atlantic Treaty, an agreement that involved a total of 12 nations including the United Kingdom and the United States. NATO was officially established on April 4, 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty. The Western European powers relied on the massive nuclear arsenal of the United States to deter a Soviet ground invasion. Eventually NATO technology rendered the power of Soviet Union’s ground forces irrelevant. After the fall of communism the need for a military alliances diminished and NATO was transformed from a military force to a political force.

Established 6 years after NATO, the Warsaw Pact was formed as communist military alliance to maintain power over Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union gained both control over its neighboring European nations and indicated to other nations that it was a major military and political force. Although the ground forces of possessed by the Warsaw Pact were far superior to those of NATO, their technology soon fell far behind. After many democratic revolutions within the Warsaw Pact it was labeled "nonexistent" in 1991

movie cold war

cold war was all about america vs russia 
russia lauched its rockets to the space which made america angry cause america didnt wanted to be left behind in the race of technology so america send their rocket in space to 
the first one in the space from america was a monkey and the first man in the space was a russian man the first man in the space was russian 
the movie was all about a cold war by comparing each other by technologies