African Independence

 In the twenty years that Africa changed from 1955 to 1975 the changed was mostly about power. During those years Africans were rebelling and becoming "free countries". They had leaders like Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta. Jomo Kenyatta spent some timein prison because the british believed he was controlling the Mau Mau. They were a violent group who killed many whites and Africans. After the Mau Mau scared off the british Kenyatta became president of Kenya. So for the 20 years africans were gaining independence in their country.

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

In the film the right stuff, the U.S and the soviet union were competeing to have a space program. The Russians were having more going on in there program so they were winning. They had the first satalite in space. They had the first human to ever go to space. All the U.S sent was a monkey. The movie showed how during the cold war the U.S. didn't wanna let the russians know what they were doing. Like when the guy broke the sound barrier they didn't want to let media know so the russians wont see. Thats what I learned from the movie.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

 NATO is an organization with United States and European countries. It was basically a protection policy. If any other NATO member was attacked the rest would come to aid it. NATO was important because the soviets were trying to promote communism. They weren't afraid to use force so the other countries needed protection. The Warsaw Pact was made up of the Soviets and their satellite countries. But in the Warsaw Pact the Soviets ran everything. They kept the other countries in the pact socialist governments and kept their own military there. The Soviets attacked other members of the pact then created a new pact in 1989.