The collapse of communism

Little Support, Political Downfall and Economic Conflicts, were some reasons why Communism in Eastern Europe collapsed. Joseph Stalin's poor decisions, led the USSR to collapse. Putting money into Defensive Arms as opposed to the country itself led to the collapse. The Soviet Union collapsed due to the fact that there was no money. Socialism and numerous competitions also led the Soviet Union to collapse. The Collapse of Communism did in fact change the world because numerous countries changed in to Capitalists.

Film lesson The Right Stuff

In the film "The right stuff" USSR and US were in a Space race! The space race was to see who can get a man in space first. At first the US was winning because We were the first to break the sound barrier. The reason why we entered this race was because the Russians had the first satellite to orbit the earth. So we got upset And decided to send someone up into space, like a test pilot, but publicist thought it would be bad to send a test pilot because they would have to ensure their safety and return! So in 1961 after many test runs of launching the space ship, and various tests for the pilots, We decided to send a monkey. So two weeks later after our sucsessful launch Russia sent a man in space named Yuri Gugarin a Russian. So we had a bad start but later on we won.

NATO and Warsaw Pact

Basically the NATO was an alliance of different states with the purpose to defend each other in case that a fellow state is under attack by the Soviet Union or "Warsaw pact". The countries that were in the NATO were 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 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.

Schindlers List

Schindler’s list showed the holocaust as a slaughter house for the Jews and the movie was very informative. There were scenes were it’s was just to sad to look at. The most powerful scenes was when the children were being burned,  it was sad because they were being shot and burned just because of their religion. This film was a good but not as powerful as the night and fog.

Night And Fog

We are doing World War II in class now, and we are learning about the Holocaust, because it was a big part of the war in Europe. It was a devastating thing that happened. Many people died because of their race, being Jewish. It was a genocide. We watched a movie called "Night and Fog" and it was documentary about the  Holocaust and what happened in the concentration camps and the life that was living there. They had images of the inmates and all the cruel things they've used to kill the Jews and other races that Hitler thought he was Superior of.

Treaty Of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty that was signed at the Palace Of Versailles in Paris, France. It was also a Treaty to end World War One. This Treaty is what Ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The German were effected greatly by this. This caused many other germans to rebel. The Germans payed billions in war dues because of all the damages and civilian casualties they have caused. The Germans also lost much of their land in the treaty. Germany eventually gave back land to countries like Poland. Germany lost many territories they had overseas as well. I believe that this treaty was not fair because of all the billions of dollars they had to pay back. Many people say that the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of Adolf Hitler because the Germans were in a great depression and Hitler being strong smart person he was felt that he had to lead Germany out of this. He gave them the hope they needed and fought back against the Associated powers. He wanted to make Germany Stronger again and he promised that by what the Treaty of Versailles did.

Ghandi Film

Ghandi helped India gain independence from Great Britain by boycotting, which means to stop doing buying, selling, or dealing someting. Ghandi and his people protested in a nonviolence way by doing this it will make the British look bad because they didnt fight back but took the abuse. He told his people to stop buying clothes because they were the one picking the cotton to make it and it was going to Britain to be made into clothes sell back to the Indians.He stops this by telling people to start weaving their own cloths. He would spend two hours a day spinning his own clothes. The other thing he did was starve himself when his people would try to fight back. He also went on a salt march to the sea to make his own salt because the British would make salt and sell it to the Indian people. By doing this Britain would lose a lot of money and it was a problem for them so the give them indecencies.