Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev, he was born 1931, March 2. He was the seventh and last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991. Mikhail Gorbachev, he doesn't like communism, because he thinks that this is not equal, it's the same. So it look so unfair to some of the people, so he is trying to change what was happening. But he know that it wasn't going to be easy, because they don't know how the others like, capitalism, they had no idea how they work. But they change it, any way. And so now Russia is capitalism.

The Collapse of Communism

The collapse of commuism it's the fall of the communist, it happened between the 1989 and 1991, in the eastern Europe and Soviet Union, becasue the people started to degree with the communism system. And also the didn't want the bernlin wall, becasue everything is controling them, and they had no freedom, so they wanted a change.
And during those years, lots of different things happened, and the people were getting tired of this, so no one like communism. So it collapse in some of the country.

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is a system of legal the separation of different kinds of human race of daily life, that enforced by the government of South Africa, between the year 1948 to 1994. Under the right of the South Africa, by the whites were maintained.
Nelson Mandela, born in July 8, 1918. The president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Before he was a president, he was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Also he was in prison for 27 years, and release from prison on February 11, 1990. Mandela supported reconciliation and negotiation, and helped lead the transition towards multi-racial democracy in South Africa. At the end, many praised Mandela, including former opponents. In South Africa he is known as Madiba. And he wrote many books, too. Such as "Long walk to freedom." After ralease form prison, he spent his time on his biography.

African Independence

In the late 19th century, European was taken control the African, and during many cause and effects, the African finially wanted their own independence.
Jomo Kenyatta, he is from Kenya, he was the president of Kenya during 1964–1978. And he is another leader of the independence. He created the organization which is called Mau Mau. It's like a group of people that is trying to make the British move out of the highland.

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The movie "The Right Stuff" is about the cold war between US and Russia, it was about the invention, it happened two years after the world war 2. The Russian invented a spaceship to sented up to the space, and when the US government found out about this, the government were trying to do something that is more better than the Russian, and then the US were trying to invent the ship that could carry mans up there, so they were looking for mans that are healthy, and they were making a lots of test, so at last, they found seven mans. They tryed to invent the ship, but they couldn't do it, their invention kept on fairing. And at last they sented a monkey up there, but the US still under the Russian, because the Russian sented a man up there, and they became the first country that a man had ever in space.