HSS Activity 4 – Geography – Earth Summit:

1. The Earth Summit was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 June to 14 June 1992. 2. Green Cross International Organisation. 3. From 3 June to 14 June 1992. 4. The first Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro. 5. In 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development will also be held in Rio, and is also commonly called Rio+20 or Rio Earth Summit 2012. It will be held from June 20 – June 22nd. 6. The purpose of Earth Summit is to represent a turning point in the way we look at environment and development. It is also aimed at attaining sustainable development. 7. The most important decisions made by Earth Summit were the following: Framework Convention on Climate Change, Convention on Biological Diversity, Forest Management and Agenda 21. 8. I think it is necessary because we need to find ways to look after our earth and use resources in a way that they are sustainable, otherwise we could run out of resources and then there would be wars and other crisis’s. 9. Since the Earth Summit in Rio, there have been broad efforts to implement sustainable development by governments, international organizations, local authorities, business, citizen groups and individuals. Agenda 21 is still a powerful long-term goal for balancing economic and social needs with the capacity of the earth’s resources and ecosystems. 10. Sustainable development is linked with Earth Summit because in order to keep resources on earth without them running out, we need to use them in a sustainable way so the earth still has that resource for its own natural needs, like trees provide oxygen during the day and water is one of the most important resources, so if we use resources in a sustainable way, it will be better for the earth.

Apartheid Timeline

Activity 8 - African Nationalism:

1.       African Nationalism was a movement across Africa to fight colonialism and demand independence from the colonisers.

2.       South Africa in 1909, Algeria in 1946 and Angola in 1575 .

3.       Pan Africanism is a movement for greater co-operation among Africans.

4.       African Nationalism was a movement across Africa to fight colonialism and Pan-Africanism is a movement for greater co-operation among Africans.

5.       Kwame Nkrumah led the Gold Coast’s anti-colonial struggle for independence from Brittain and Robert Sobukwe founded the Pan Africanist Congress in opposition to the apartheid regime.

6.       The song ‘Buffalo Soldier’ relates to Pan-Africanism because it says that there was an African “Buffalo Soldier stolen from Africa in the heart of America.” The soldier was fighting an arrival and also fighting for survival like Africans were against colonialism. That soldier was Bob Marley himself.

HSS Nazi policy movie By Robert Gould

HSS video link to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiz6UAm0TB8&list=HL1336507958&feature=mh_lolz

HSS Activity 7 - Martin Luther King, jr.

1.       His grandfather started the family’s career as pastors Ebenezers Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; His father served from then until the president. Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. His father and grandfather graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta.

2.       Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia and Morehouse College.

3.       He received the degree for doctorate in 1955.

4.       He became the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Mongomery, Alabama.

5.       He accepted the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States.

6.       His first goal was to spread information about what he called a coalition of conscience and inspire his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution.

7.       The Birmingham police commissioner used boycott against demonstrators.

8.       In Washington, D.C., in 1963.

9.       President Jhonson.

10.   On the evening of April 4, 1968. When Martin Luther King, jr., was standing on his balcony of the motel he was at Memphis, Tennissee, where he was lead to a protest march in sympathy was striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

HSS Activity 6 - The Holocaust

1. The Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic execution of European jews by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. By 1945 two thirds of the jews had been killed. Jews were the primary victim targets but there were other victims from other races that didn't meet the requirements to be part of the "aryan race".

2. Nazi's believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that other races were a biological threat to the purity of the "aryan race" and therefore persecuted. The Nazi's blamed the jews for Germanys defeat in WW I and they also blamed jews for the economic crysis.

3. In the late 1930's the Nazi's killed thousands of handicapped Germans in a number different ways, like giving them lethal injections, gassing them with poisonous gas and shooting massive numbers of jews and gypsies in open fields and ravines. Six extermination chambers were built in Poland where mass-murder by gas and body disposal by cremation were regularly done.

4. The United States and Great Brittain as well as other nations outside of Nazi Germany recieved many press reports durning the time of the Holocaust about the persecution of the jews. By the end of 1939 the governments of the United States and Great Brittain found about the reports on "The final solution", Germanys objective to kill all the jews of Europe. In 1944 The United States and Great Brittain decided to react by defeating Germany in WW II.