African Independence

Between the two world wars, an educated middle class had begun 

to emerge in African cities. Young men went abroad for college 

and graduate studies. They listened to American jazz musicians 

and read literature of the Harlem Renaissance. They were influ- 

enced by African Americans such as W. E. B. Du Bois as well as by 

such older Africans as Blaise Diagne, who organized Pan-African 

(all-African) congresses in 1919 and 1921.  The british soon after started to come to africa. Kwame Nkrumah led the first major rebelion against the british.

Film Lesson: The Right Stuff

The Film "The Right Stuff" was about how The Russians were starting to get ahead of the americans by being the first to send a satellite into space. When the americans heard about it they were scared because they thought that who ever controlled space could control the world. They immediately started testing test pilots with college degrees to be the first man in space. While they got their space programs fired up they started getting there space crafts built. Over 6 months there was nothing but failures and lift offs that ended in shear disaster. However after months of training and planning they finally did it. They created a space ship that had 0 failures. The first american in space was a monkey. They sent up a monkey first for a test flight to insure that everything was o.k and good to go. The americans were the first to break the sound barrier at M.O.C.K 1 however 2 months later Russians beat them at M.O.C.K 2, totally destroying our record.

NATO and the Warsaw pact

The NATO is a treaty that was created and signed a long time ago back to when North America & Russia(Soviet Union) were in serious dispute. A dispute so serious that it seemed like a war was inevitable. NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The countries that agreed to and signed the NATO consist mostly of all the atlantic bordering countries.

 

The Warsaw Pact was a treaty between all of the countries that bordered the Soviet Union. The Warsaw pact was similar to the NATO but just for the Soviet Union. When North America and its allies found out about the WarSaw pact they knew that action would have to be take to avoid another World War.