HSS activity 4 – Geography 1. The Earth Summit was a conference held by United Nations in Rio de Janeiro from 3 June to 14 June 1992. 2. Green Cross International Organization. 3. 3 June to 14 June 1992. 4. Rio de Janeiro was the location of the first Earth summit. 5. In 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development will be held in Rio, and is also commonly called Rio+20 or Rio Earth Summit 2012. It will be on the June 20th to the June 22nd. 6. The purpose of Earth Summit is to symbolize a change in the way we see the environment and development. It is also focused on attaining sustainable development. 7. The most important decisions created by the Earth Summit were the following: Framework Convention on Climate Change and Convention on Biological Diversity and Forest Management and Agenda 21. 8. It is very necessary as we need to look for ways to look after our earth and use resources in a sustainable way, if not we would run out of resources and then there would be fighting and war. 9. After the Earth Summit in Rio, there has been an effort to bring in sustainable development by governments, international organizations, local authorities, business, citizen groups and individuals. Agenda 21 is 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 connected to the Earth Summit because to keep resources on earth without them running out, we need to use them in a way that the will not run out so the earth still has resources for its own natural needs, like trees give oxygen during the day and water is the most important resource, so if we use resources in a sustainable way, it will be better for our world.

African Nationalism and Pan-Africanism

1.       African Nationalism- African Nationalism was a movement across Africa to fight against colonialism and demand independence.

2.        African Unity/African Union – 1963

African National Congress – 1912

National Congress of West Africa – 1920

3.       Pan-Africanism is a movement for to create co-operation amongst Africans.

4.       Pan-Africanism is a movement for co-operation and African Nationalism was a movement for independence.

5.       Kwame Nkrumah - An important 20th-century believer of Pan-Africanism, Kwame Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe - was a South African political dissenter, who started the Pan Africanist Congress in disapproval to the apartheid government. In 2004 Sobukwe was voted 42nd in the SABC3's Great South Africans.

6.         The song says that an African was sold as a slave to America, where he lived. The Rastafarian religion believes in Africans “returning to their roots” in Africa. The song is a call for African Americans to ‘come back home’ to Africa. It is the idea of African unity and freedom from non-African oppression that is showed in this song. Bob Marley explains the leaving of America, a place of non-African oppression (African Nationalism), and the returning to a unity in Africa (Pan-Africanism).

Activity on the holocaust

1.       The holocaust was a time when Jews were killed and made suffered by the Nazis and were killed (a genocide).

2.       Because they were seen a threat there race, and they were seen as a lower class to Germans. And they wanted a race with the perfect german with certain features.

3.       They would capture all of the Jews they could and transport them to concentration camps is Poland, and from there transport them to death camps, gas chambers or just shoot them.

4.       The world tried to liberate the prisoners in the concentration camps and then support them after the war.

Nazi Germany Timeline and Questions

Question 1

Nazi Germany Timeline

Question 2

So that only people of German blood can have high levels of positions

and are able to vote

Question 3

. According to the Nazi’s an Aryan race was a perfect child with blond hair blue eyes and born from a German mother and father, with no birth deformities.

Question 4

http://www.google.co.za/search?q=nazi+aryan+propaganda&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=642&gbv=2&tbm=isch&ei=LLE

yT8agHY6z8QOOwOXaBg&start=20&sa=N 

Question 5

The Nazi party got there ideologies to the people through inspirational

 speeches and posters.