Taylor Rousseau's History Page

2007-05-09T10:22:00.000-07:00

Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev helped to open the soviet union by modernizing the economy and introducing a market economy to Russia. This led to other countries establishing a market economy and become independent. Glasnost is an official policy of the former Soviet government emphasizing candor with regard to discussion of social problems and shortcomings. Perestroika is the Russian term for the economic reforms introduced by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet economy.

2007-05-08T11:00:00.003-07:00

Collapse of Communism

The fall of Communism collapse in Eastern Europe and the USSR because the Cold War ended, Diplomats, finally had an opportunity to enter the Soviet Union without military aid. The Berlin Wall came crashing down. The Berlin Wall came crashing down because East and West Germany form new diplomatic relations, economic and social ties. The Soviet Union collapse because they split up into 15 difference republics and the Soviet Union change the world?

2007-05-07T10:34:00.000-07:00

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is a system that separate people according to race, religion, caste, etc. Nelson Mandela was such a hero because he fought for Unity and Liberation. He was so admired by the authors of these articles and sites because his story was touched by many people and it teach us that even that there was only one man he can make a difference if he fight for what he dreams for.

2007-05-07T10:24:00.000-07:00

Creation of Israel

Zionism was a Jewish movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Modern Zionism is concerned with the support and development of the state of Israel. The conflict that occurred when Israel was created was that feud between the Palestinians and Israelis. The reason that the Palestinians and Israelis do not get along because the Israelis where Jewish and the Palestinians
didn't like them because the Jews kicked out so many Palestinians from their homes and the Jews looked liked they were about to take over.

2007-05-02T10:05:00.000-07:00

African Independence

The reason that African change with in 20 years is that the Africans learned how to fight the Europeans like the Africans protest against the Europeans and I think they fight with weapons (I think) but a African named Kwame Nkrumah lead the protest. One of the leaders that helped with this change was Jomo Kenyatta he has a country named after him. He rised the second Mau Mau.

2007-04-17T10:34:00.000-07:00

Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

The US and the USSR were competing in the film "The Right Stuff" to see who can get to outer-space first. The Russian was winning the competition because they where using animals to test out the rocket and other test that the astronauts went through to see if they can handle the pressure of outside space.

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

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Kennedy eventually ordered low-level reconnaissance missions once every two hours. The Cuba Missile Crisis was considered “the hottest moment in the Cold War”? Because Cuba declared that they will bomb all their enemies with more powerful bombs that were more powerful than the last that they created. On the 25th Kennedy pulled the quarantine line back and raised military readiness to defcon 2. Then on the 26th ex-comm. heard from Khrushchev in an impassioned letter. He proposed removing Soviet missiles and personnel if the U.S. would guarantee not to invade Cuba. October 27 was the worst day of the crisis.

2007-04-16T09:51:00.000-07:00

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is an organization that includes countries in Europe and North America. The reason for the formation of NATO was that the countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come to their aide. The Warsaw pact consisted mostly of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. It was supposed to be another mutual defense alliance like the North Atlantic Treaty, and was created in response to it. The Soviet Union dominated the alliance. The Europeaians formed NATO, and the Soviet Union formed the warsaw pact.

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

"Night and Fog"

Some of my reactions to the film "Night and Fog" was shocking. I have found the film as powerful becaues the Jews was set of and torchered at camps that Hiter started. The movie "Night and Fog" shown and gave more detail than the other movie and the movie "Schindler's List" only tells us how the Jews hide and taken away from there homes by the Nazis and force into work at facteries and families taken away or killed. The film "Schindler's List" illustrates the Holocaust more effectively because the shown how the jewish kids try to hide from the Nazis
and the shown how the jewish work and being killed.

2007-03-21T10:31:00.000-07:00

"Schindler's List"
"Schindler's List" illustrated the Holocaust by showing what the Jews did to try to hide from the Nazis and they shown that what the Nazis do to them and how the Jews was put to work. The scene that I thought that was powerful from the movie was how the Nazi soldiers went to the Krakow ghetto to take all the Jews by force and I also thought that the part when the Jews went into the field and went to work by digging up all the dead bodies of the Jewish people and gathered the bodies together and burn the all the bodies at once. The image that will stay with me was the part that all Jewish people was taken away and force to work for the Jews in the camps that they was sent to because when I saw a the Jews hiding from the Nazi they all looked frighten that they will be caught by the Nazis so they hide under the floor broads, pianos, etc. and all the Jews might have died in the process of the kid napping.

2007-03-19T11:03:00.000-07:00

US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945
Yes, I agree that the US Atomic bombing of Japan is the #1 news story of the century because it was a suprise that the US and german scientist got together to create this powerful bomb and after using the A-bomb so many people have died in the process because of the explosion and the radiation that went all over the world. I think 9/11 would be in the top 4 biggest news story that I heard. I would just add my news story to number 4 spot in the top 100 news stories right after "Japan bombs Pearl Harbor: United States enters World War II" from 1941.Because the first three top news stories seem like an important part of history.

2007-03-19T10:41:00.000-07:00

Germany at War - WW II

Propaganda-information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.The poster tells me that "Germany has destroyed Great Britain". Germany and the other nations at war was illustrated on Germany beat Great Britain with an iron fist and Germany became triumphant over Great Britain. The iron fist shows that Germany didn't give up without a fight there are also pictures of factories, large land, and a bed, there is also a symbol of a hammer and chisel

2006-12-07T05:23:00.000-08:00

Some of the hardships that the Europeans faced as they explored Africa was the desises from mosquitoes and bugs they also faced other tribes that will attact at first site. Because since the europeans found the nile river they clamed it as their own.The advantages that the europeans had over the africans was they had machine guns and better technology.

2006-12-07T05:22:00.000-08:00

Matthew Perry "bullied" the Japanese into signing a trade treaty, by trading them drugs instead of regular items that they can acctually use, the british people traded a sort of drug called "opium" for tea. opium is a type of herione.
it is made of a pesial type of poppy seeds, and they are boiled until a type of gooey stuff comes out of it. ( then the smoke it till they get high. )
so then they got addicted to the drug and kept on trading all their tea.

2006-12-06T05:34:00.000-08:00

Industrial Revolution - Child Labor

Child labor in the industrial reveloution was a very hard time in the 19th century. Children
between 10-12 were working 14-16 hours a day and they were only paid as much as 10 cents a day, because it was (for the owners of the factory) better to hire children to work in the factorys because they were smaller and if they had to reach into a big macine it would be easier for them to do that, because they were smaller. And also because they paid grown men more money, that is another reason why they paid children, because they would accept fewer amount of money.

2006-12-06T05:28:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Philosopher Karl Marx believed he had discovered the key to history: Capitalism would be over-ruled by communism and oppressed workers would finally be free. but that did not work. Karl Marx invented something called communisim.
communisim is when every body is equal, they must be treated equally, they must be paid equally, and they must all work equally. but communisim did not always happen, because in people dont put much effort in their work, and the people that do put effort in there work they still get paid the same amount and some people didnt think that was fair.

2006-12-06T05:14:00.000-08:00

Film Lesson: "Modern Times"

The movie called "modern times" is a movie about the industrial reveloution. Charlie Chaplin
the main character of the movie was playing a man who was being over worked in a factory.
Chaplin's view of industry and the Industrial Revolution was kind of disgusted by the whole idea and was looking... for lets just say "justice". He wanted out he didnt want to stay in the factory being over worked day after day and getting paid about a dollar a day. After that scene he was looking for a way to chage the industrial reveloution, but eventually he fails.

2006-12-06T05:12:00.001-08:00

Nationalism

Nationalism is a pleged that everyone say to show that we represent our contry and we fight for our contry. Some people that I see what they do is they stand up face the flag and say the plege of
alegents while putting their hand over their hearts. I stand up face the flag, put my hand over my heart, and then I would say the plege of alegents.

2006-12-06T05:12:00.000-08:00

Geography of Latin American Revolutions

I think that there is a connection between the revolution because it started with the american revolution then the french revolution and they fougth for the same reason like the americans fought for and the latin revolution wanted to do the same thing. The american revolution came first and had a influenced on the french and they started their own revolution, the latin revolution had started their revolution because they heard about the american and french revolution. All three revolutions have something in common becacuse they all wanted independec and over power their government.

2006-12-06T05:11:00.000-08:00

Simon Bolivar

Simon Bolivar was famous because he had lead the forces to win independence. Bolivar successfully defeated the estabish government during other battles befor the combined armies of Spanish and local anti-Bolivar forces to finally defeat Liberator. The reason that a contry was named after him because he brong independence to spain and venezuela.

2006-12-06T05:10:00.000-08:00

The Latin American Revolutions

This is the link that I will discuss about the latin american revolution. In the Latin American Revolution started after the french revolution. The people in latin america heard about the Enlightenment thinkers so they were thinking about their own freedom. The people wanted their own libery and equality deals that the american and french had fougth for.