Friday, 18 May 2012

Activity 8


Activity 8:

1.       African Nationalism was when the European countries gave the African colonies their independence due to international pressure and the great depression.

2.        ANC -1912, National Congress of West Africa 1920, aborigonies rights protection society 1977.

3.       Pan-Africanism is an act in which the Africa continent would like to unify all Africans and make it a “one African community” it also stands for the liberation and freedom of African people.

4.       African nationalism is/was a struggle to make Africa a republican continent by allowing all country’s to become republic, whereas pan-Africanism is an act in which the whole African community would like to make Africa one continent and unify us.

5.       Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian who led the struggle for independence in Ghana against the British empire, he started boycotts, no-violent protests, strikes and non-co-operation with British officials. He fought even during his two jail sentences and became the first political leader of Ghana and showed the Africans to unify and fight for freedom. Robert Sobukwe was the first leader of the Pan Africanist Congress and he had strong influences on black South Africans to liberate themselves.

6.       Bob Marley’s song buffalo soldier is a song that is linked to Pan Africanism and African Nationalism by means of showing how a soldier from Africa was sent to America where he was un-unified by his African homeland nation and that he was used by America and was taken away from his land as a sort of a slave, which also depicts African nationalism as it shows how he was used by other countries. It also portrays how he won the war for America, which the Africans don’t want as if he was unified with Africa get would help them win wars, and yet the best of the Africans are shipped off to other countries.  

Monday, 5 March 2012

Activity 6: The Holocaust

1. The Holocaust was an extermination/murder of millions of jews bt the Nazi regime.

2. They killed jews as Germans believed that jews were inferior and they wanted to create a Aryan race, they also blamed the Jews for the Great Depression.
3. Boycotted jews, Laws came in stripping Jews of all rights, Star of David, Ghetto's(isolated camp), Concentration camps(forced labour), Firing squads, Extermination camps such as Auswitz(Gas chambers).

4. The world did nothing during the war but after the war was finished they killed many Germans who killed many Jews and also had many memorials.

Friday, 17 February 2012

Activity 6

1. The holocaust was a mass extermination of the jewish race.
2. They had thoughts of jewish people being unsuoerior and being a threat to the work of the Germans.
3.They either got a large group of people together and shot them, Made jewish people dig their own graves and shoot them or put them in "showers" which released lethel mustard gas.
4.Germany was banned form having an active army, made them sign a treaty and memorials were laid out.