Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is a racist system, which doesn’t give blacks, and Indians didn’t share full rights of citizenship. Nelson Mandela is such a hero because he understands what it means to fight against huge odds. He remained unbeaten and unbowed, despite great outward oppression. He went to prison for his work, because he knew there was no option. He believes that every human being is equal and has rights. He is admired by authors of these articles and sites because he is respected for the man he is and for doing so many things for the right for people.

African Independence

The Africa changed so much in the 20 year period from 1955 to 1975. The British went to Africa for it natural resources, they then enslave the people that was there. They made the people work for them and they also sell slave to other country. The African get tier of the British telling them what to do. The one leader of the African independence was Angolans, he had no education or health facilities and little commerce. He gained an education and saw that other country was gaining their independence with support of groups to help. Their were more leader who did similar thing to gain their independence like Jomo Kenyatta. Altogether it took about 50 years to independence of Africa.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

Basically the NATO was an alliance of different states with the purpose to defend each other in case that a member state is under attack by the Soviet Union or Warsaw pact. The countries that was in the NATO was the USA, UK, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, and 21 other countries. Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact for the same reason US established NATO, but they were more dangerous than the NATO. The Alliance of Eastern European Communist states that gave the USSR the advantage because of "Satellite States." The members were East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania.

The Right Stuff

The US and the USSR competing in the film "The Right Stuff" they were trying to get to space first and if you control space you can donates the earth. With the control on space they can use nuclear weapon, which would be guided by satellite. The USSR was winning the competition in the race to space, they had the first men in space and US had the first chimp in space. The US was scared because USSA looked like they going to win the war. So try to find the best people to send them into space, the rocket ships the US built kept getting blowing up. The scenes from the film will help you remember this Cold War event the rocket ships going to space and also when the US break the sound barrier, which is the speed of sound.