Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Under the apartheid system, nonwhites classified as Bantu (black), colored (mixed), or Indian-did not share full rights of citizenship with the white minority.

The African Independence

The African Independence commenced during the 1955 to 1970.

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

• In 1949 ten Western European nations decided to join with the United States and Canada to form a defensive military alliance. The alliance was named the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The U.S felt that NATO membership represented the country's first peacetime military commitment. These nations had a huge thing in common and this was that they were against the Soviet Union and communism. After the fall of communism the need for a military alliances diminished and NATO was transformed from a military force to a political force.
• The Soviet Union had realized that NATO was a threat. Due to the actions of the NATO, the Soviets developed an alliance system aswell in 1955 as partof their own containment policy. They named it the Warsaw Pact. It involved the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. In 1961, the East Germans built a wall to separate East and West Berlin. The Berlin Wall symbolized a world divided into rival camps. However, not every country joined the new alliances. Some like India, chose not  to align with either side. And China, the largest Communist country, came to distrust the Soviet Union and remained nonaligned.