Matthew's global blog

collapse of communism

2007-05-09T10:01:00.000-07:00

The fall of Communism was a major turning point in history. For Instance, the Cold War, which had been going on for a long time, ended. Diplomats, finally had an opportunity to enter the Soviet Union without military aid. When Communism fell, there was less of a need for concern about nuclear annhilation. During the cold war, people worried about M.A.D.(Mutually Assured Destruction).

rise of Isreal

2007-05-07T10:06:00.000-07:00

After the holocaust. the jewish people were given a land of thier own and it was named Isreal. But the thing is that Isreal is surrounded by a bunch of countries that hate them. So the day after Isreal was made they got bombed oy 6 diffrent countries. Isreal has a real good army though and they always have the latest aircraft weapons and bombs. Alot of the reason why those countries also don't like us is that because we help Isreal out and give tham alot of money.

Aparthied

2007-05-02T09:55:00.000-07:00

Aparthied means racial segregation policy of the government of south africa from 1948 to 1994. According to the aparthied system, non-whites were clasified as bantu and colored were classified as mixed. In 1989 a man named nelson mendela was released from prison after 26 years. He was later elected presidant of the ANC and only after that sou8th africa was it's own country in 1990. In 1994 south africa was rejoined the commonweath.

African independence

2007-04-27T10:02:00.000-07:00

between the two world wars a educated middle class man had begun to emerge in African cities. Young men went abroad for college and graduate studies. They listened to jazz musicians and read literature from Harlem renaissance. They were influenced by W.E.B du bois as well as such older african american like Blaise Diagne, who organized pan african congress in 1919 and in 1921.

The Neolithic revolution

2007-04-26T07:57:00.000-07:00

The Neolithic Revolution was a great change in the way people lived. The shift from hunting & gathering to agriculture led to permanent settlements. The Neolithic Revolution is a major turning point in human history. The Neolithic Revolution changed the way humans lived thier lives. The use of agriculture allowed humans to develop permanent settlements, social classes, and new technologies. Some of these early groups settled in the fertile valleys of the Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Yellow, and Indus Rivers. This resulted in the rise of the great civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and India.

European Union

2007-04-26T07:53:00.001-07:00

For centuries, Europe was the scene of frequent and bloody wars. In the period 1870 to 1945, France and Germany fought each other three times, with terrible losses. A number of European leaders became convinced that the only way to secure a lasting peace between their countries was to unite them economically and politically

2007-04-26T07:53:00.000-07:00

Ghandi

2007-04-16T10:15:00.000-07:00

M.K Ghandi was a great leader who used constructive critism to get people on his side and also the use of nonviolence. He and the people who followed him did not get anything from the british the made thier own clothes and got thier own salt, but most important would never cause violence and always constructive critism so that way it was leagul.

"The Right Stuff"

2007-04-16T10:09:00.000-07:00

In this movie it would explain how we were at a kind of mental war with Russia on who could do stuff first. In the movie Russia was winning because they were the first to put something in space abd we wanted to beat them at getting someone in space first but unfortunatly they beat us at that to because we souldn't make the shuttle strong enough.

Cuban Missile crisis

2007-04-16T10:02:00.000-07:00

The Cuban Missile Crisis was considered the hottest moment because it was the closest we ever came to a neucler war. but thanks to the bravery of Kennedy and Khrushchev the hottest battle was averted and no neucler weapons were used during that time.

NATO

2007-04-16T09:53:00.000-07:00

NATO stood for the north atlantic treaty orginization, that include countries in Europe and North America. The main reason for it is that the countries involved wanted some kind of defenseso that if one gets attacked the others would come and help it out. The warsaw pact mostly was mad up of the soviet union and the satellite countries. It was supposed to be another alliance like NATO and was created in response to it

night and fog

2007-03-22T10:22:00.000-07:00

I think that this was the most powerful of all of them because it was real and showed how skinny they were and how they were killed and torchured it also shows how the con centration camp looks now and then showed how it looked back then. I think that this was the most powerful.

Shindler's list

2007-03-22T10:16:00.000-07:00

It illistrates how they would treat they jews and the torture they would put them through. the parts that would stick w/ me are how they would barbarically take the kids away from the parents but shindler stopped them, and also how he gave them water when they were sufficating.

US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945

2007-03-22T09:56:00.000-07:00

I agree that it is the most major because throwing the atomic bomb on a random city in japan thats just crazy and the ampont of power that it had on it, also killing so many random innocent people and children that never had a chance. Also the people that did survive wanted to die because of the radiation affects that happened to them.

The Treaty of Versailles (Ended WWI)

2007-02-13T10:14:00.000-08:00

The treaty of versailles was created in 1919 and it was the peace treaty which officially entered world war I between the allied and centrel power and the german empire. After six months of nogotiations which took place in paris peace confrence. The treaty was signed as a follow up to armistice signed in november 11, 1918.

Excerts from mustafa kemal's speeches to the turkish people

2007-02-12T10:13:00.000-08:00

Mustafa Kemal is the man who made the speech about the fez wereing and how he thinks it's so nigligent, ignorant, fanaticism, and a hatred of progress and civilization. To him instead of wearing the fex he wants his people ton wear the hat.

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2007-02-09T09:57:00.001-08:00

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