The Collapse of Communism

Joseph Stalin was a very mean dictator,he would kill many innocent people. He also tried to make people into communist by forming the cominform. Stalin wanted to improve the agriculture in eastern Europe and USSR so he made all the farms into different classes the richer farmers didn't like this and decided to start a protest,they destroyed crops and livestock. Stalin made a class war by the end of the 193Os the land had very little crops and livestock this lead to depression and caused millions of peasants to starve to death. Greed was also a big reason for the fall of communism,Stalin would also punish people who didn't work in working camps he would send them to slaves camps. The United states would make propaganda saying the USSR was evil and made the entire nation go against the USSR.
The reason the Berlin wall was torn down was because the east Germans and west Germans didn't like being separated and knowing they couldn't cross the border bothered them. The East Germans were communist and that's why they decided to built this wall. On November 9,1989 many people gathered near the Berlin wall and tore it down themselves making the separation between east and west German's no more.
The Soviet Union was separated into 15 different countries all of them had their own separate flags. Many things became better after the collapse of the soviet union. The cold war ended,the economy became better for the east and west German when Berlin wall came down. When capitalism came to Russia it caused many people do get higher paying jobs since farming was no longer a high paying job. People didn't worry about nuclear annihilation and also many people turned on communism.

Nelson Mandela And Apartheid

Apartheid:means to be separated by race and also by other things like social class,if you were smart,if you were in a mixed marriage or had intercourse with people of a different race.
Nelson Mandela stood up for his people. He went against apartheid and racism. Despite many years in jail he became Africa's first black president. He fought in a peaceful way instead directly going to violence.
Mandela was a leader of an underground political movement called the African National Congress (ANC). In 1964 he wasn sentenced to life in prison the white goverment just wanted to stop Mandela from trying to free the people of africa. After 27 years in prison he was let go.
In Febuary 1993 Mandela and President F.W de Klerk decided to form a government of unity. The elections were held in April 1994, with the ANC winning 62% of the vote and Mandela becoming president.