Nelson Mandela

Apartheid was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the South African Bureau for Racial Affairs. Nelson Mandela was a hero because he was the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe and he organized sabotage campaigns against the government and the military. He tried to introduce a system of racial integration.

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The US and the USSR were competing in this because they were trying to have the strongest kind of nuclear war, have more nuclear bombs than each other, they wanted to get to space first. The USSR was winning because its discoveries were more advanced than than the US. The cold war was fought with propaganda, economic war, diplomatic haggling and occasional military clashes between these two nations. The scenes that will remind me of the events in the Cold War were the US's rocket launching failures.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is an organization formed April 4 of 1949. It includes countries in Europe and North America. The main reason for this organization to form was that the countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of these countries were attacked all other nations in NATO would come to their aide.NATO was formed by these countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The Warsaw pact was created in response to NATO and was formed May 14, 1955. It was consisted mainly by the Soviet Union and it's satellite countries. It was controlled by the Soviet Union, all nations in the Warsaw pact were communist. It was formed by the Soviet Union and seven of satellite nations. It was formed for mutual defense that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.