Emmanuel's Global Blog

The European Union

2007-04-27T14:44:00.000-07:00

The European union was manliy use to join other contries and also to extented more population throughtout Eurpope. Also it was use because people wanted to bult a stronger army and have an easier time to trade with other people. The prevents that this has is that if you attake one country then you have to fight with every one that is in the union to.
This is good because this help contries look out for one other.

Film "The Right Stuff"

2007-04-27T14:27:00.000-07:00

The US and the ussr were competing in the film "The Right Stuff" by bulit the most and good rocket ships. They were also send the men in the U.S. to doctor 's to see who was the best for the job. After they broke the sound barrier{this is the United states doing this}they found out the Russia send people to space and they also bulit space ships with out the united states finding out about it.In October, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite -- named Sputnik -- to be hurled into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was actually no larger than a beach ball and sent meaningless signals back to earth, but it had a profound effect on the thinking of citizens and governments around the globe. It was a shiny steel sphere about 23 inches across with four antennas trailing behind it. Russian engineers wanted to make sure that people around the globe could both see and hear it.

Cuban Missile Crisis

2007-04-25T08:30:00.000-07:00

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the dangerest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed were at their highest state ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. Luckily, thanks to the support of two men thewar was over .

In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union. In late April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range missiles in Cuba. A deployment in Cuba would double the Soviet strategic arsenal and provide a real deterrent to a potential U.S. attack against the Soviet Union.

Meanwhile, Fidel Castro was looking for a way to defend his island nation from an attack by the U.S. Ever since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Castro felt a second attack was inevitable. Consequently, he approved of Khrushchev's plan to place missiles on the island. In the summer of 1962 the Soviet Union worked quickly and secretly to build its missile installations in Cuba.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

2007-04-16T08:19:00.000-07:00

NATO is an organization that includes many countries in Europe and North America. The major reason of NATO was that the countries involved wanted a good defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come. Up until 1950 NATO was somewhat of an agreement for the U.S. to protect other members. At this time there were no military or administrative structures. The beginning of the Korean war initiated the creation of a military command system along with an expansion of the organization.
As the western powers' relationship with the Soviet Union worsened NATO's importance grew. Some of the reasons that the Western leaders felt threatened by the Soviet Union were the installation of Communist governments in Eastern Europe, their increasing territorial demands, and their support for guerrilla warfare in Greece.
Another major threat felt by European countries was when the Soviet Union's military capability began to reach that of the Western Powers. Some of the European members began to doubt that the U.S. would honor the agreement to protect them. The events in Czechoslovakia in 1968 changed the minds of the Europeans, and NATO was then viewed as a source for security by them. America's involvement in Vietnam, though, brought down Europe's confidence in the U.S.'s capabilities. While this was occuring the Soviets continued to build up their arsenal. NATO began a new program in 1979 which would help build up defense, as well as new efforts toward stopping the Soviet Union from building up their nuclear weapons.

Flim lesson Schindles list

2007-03-26T08:53:00.000-07:00

I think that this movie was very painful because so many people died in the concentration camps. This movie described the bad images of the concentration camps and it was painful because so many people died including the children who didn't work.
I think that the concentration camps were very bad because first people were sent to the camps to work for hours and hours without eating or spelling. If you decide to quit you better prayed that they wouldn't have killed you by the engd of the day. I think that the images that will stay with me will be the childeren that deid and the horror of people who deid in the concentration camps.

Film lesson-"Night of Fog"

2007-03-22T08:28:00.000-07:00

My reation to the flim was very painful because the movie was only about killing the jews.
It was about the jews being killed by the Germans. I belivie that all this was very bad and not worth it because all these jews died because they thought that the jews were better then them.
I think that the schinder list was very good because it has a better veiw of the holocaust.
I also think that it was a waist of time trying too get a hole popuation killed. I think that they did all that for nothing becaues it just a waist of time.

Germany at war-ww2

2007-03-09T08:45:00.000-08:00

Propaganda is the message that is being influence of a opinion of a person.
This poster is about the Nazis confidently produced a strikingly effective black-and-white election poster. It is an image of Hitler's head, set in stark contrast to a black background. Below the face of Hitler was written just one word - 'HITLER!
Germany and other nations are scared because if any one is trying to mess around with Hitler
then it most likely that it would be that persons or countries funeral. On the poster Hitler is trying to take control over the whole world but he fails because he tries to defeat Russia and ends up losing.The US defeats Hitler. Other countries around the world are now save because they don't have to worry about Hitler any more.

The Treaty of Versailles(ended WW1)

2007-02-13T08:28:00.000-08:00

This Treaty of Versailles affect Germany because Germany lost the war and everyone was blaming it on the Germans. The Germans so disappoint because now they had to pay all the damage that they create in the war. All the countiers that won said that germany stared the war but this was only said because germany had lost.
This might had causes a rise of aloph hilter. It may because he use to kill people if they didn't work. He also use to kill people for pleasure and had toruaments to kill people by chocking, killing them with swords and loins eating them alive.
This Treaty was good because the war end, but also started war world 2.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the modernation of turkey

2007-02-12T08:49:00.000-08:00

Mustafa Kemal help modernized Turkey and made it more secular by Emerging as a military hero at a place called Dardanelles in the year 1915, he became the best leader of the Turkish national liberation struggle in 1919. He blazed across the world in the early 1920 as a triumphant commander who crushed the invaders of his home country. Following a series of impressive victories against all odds, he led his nation to full and good independence.
The changes that Mustafa made were that he made Turkey be independence.
The word secular means that it is something that is not regarded to religious, spiritual
or any type of ritual that is need.

Gandhi

2007-02-09T08:23:00.000-08:00

Gandhi helped with his nation by making his own clothing. He also told them to not oby the british ways and not to buy there goods and not to fight back if the british start hit them back.
He also want india to become one country but he never got that chance. Some of the things that he did was that he walk to the ocean where he said that "this salt comes from this ocean therefore we own this country". This happening during the salt march.
When there was violence some times he would fast [not eat] because he didn't want them to
fight. In other words he want them to feel the pain the indias were feeling. Gandhi was a good
leader and today he would be prouded of all the indains that deid without fighting back against the british.

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2007-02-02T08:39:00.001-08:00

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