Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revoluton was the 1st agricultural revolution. It changed the way that humans live. All of the use of agriculture in these days allowed people to establish permant setlement, social classes, and new technologies. Also settlements by some early groups in the valleys of Nile,Yellow, and Indus river resulted in some great civilization in Egypt, China, India, and Mesopatamia.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The European Union

The European Union is an intergovernmental union of 25 states in Europe. This union was established in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union. It is one of the largest economic and political entities in the world. This economic union was successful and grew into other economic unions. Now the EU has many of its own establishments such asa parliament, military, and various organizations and committees that help maintain cooperation and trade between the EU member nations. This union was a good thing because it prevents war between nations such as England, Germany, France, and Italy. They are now together economically, politically, socially, and militarily. There is not much of a chance that these nations will be going to war any time soon.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Film Lesson "The Right Stuff"

In this movie the Russians were competing against the Americans to see who could get spacecraft into space first.During the movie the Americans made many attempts to beat Russia but failed. Russia was the first to get a spacecraft into space first but the Americans were the first to get a man on the moon so no one really won. A scene that i will remember the cold war is when the United States were testing out the spaceships and many of them will explode. It showed us how desperate the U.S was for winning the space competition against Russia.

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time when the U.S heard news that the Soviet Union was placing nuclear weapons in Cuba and the U.S was doing as much as they can to stop this because they were getting into problems with 2 communist countries.This event was considered the hottest momment in the Cold War because it was the closest to becoming a nuclear was in this period.When Kennedy heard what was happening in Cuba he immediately formed the ex-comm, a group of 12 of the most imortant advisors to handle the situation.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, is a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by 10 Western European nations the US and Canada due to the Berlin Blockade which rose Europe's fears of Soviet aggression. The Soviet Union saw NATO as a treat and started it's own alliance which was called the Warsaw Pact. It included the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. The East Germans built a wall to separate East and West Berlin. The wall represented a world divided into rival camps. But there were some countries that didn't want anything to do with the alliances such as India and China, who distrusted the Soviet Union.

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