Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the Soviet Union and paved the way for the end of Communism by opening the soviet citizens to help out with their society. He started a thin called glasnost which means opening to help the citizens to open themselves and to be more comfortable with their leader and not be scared. Perestroika means economic restructuring. This helped change the government and it killed the communism in Russia.

Collapse of Communism

Why did people tear down the Berlin Wall? What happened to the Soviet Union and how did the collapse of the Soviet Union change the world?

Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the USSR mainly because people had the rights to do whatever they wanted so they chose not to be communist anymore. People teared down the Berlin Wall because they were seperated from family and friends.

Creation of Israel

Zionism is the rise of the establishment of a Jewish state. The Arabs didn't like the fact that the Jews were getting land, their land from the Americans. So the Arabs attacked Israel from all sides. This was the war of 1948. The Palestinians and the Israels don't get along is because they are from two different religions. The Palestinians don't like the fact that the Jews took land from them. They don't like that they have to share the land. The Jews just want to have a land of thier own and they want to get along with the Muslims but the two have a long history of hating each other.

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is a racial discrimination and segregation towards the non-white about politics that was formerly done in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela is a hero to the South Africans. He was fighting for freedom with the Africans. He wanted them to have a good life and them to be free. Mandela could've chose to get revenge on the whites for putting him in jail for 25 years but he didn't and that made him a good person. If he did then it would have made Africa a wild place. There would be a lot of chaos and it wouldn't have been good. Nelson Mandela was voted as presedent of South Africa in less than 5 years after he got out of jail. He got rid of the white government and made South Africa a democratic country. That is why people love him.