Communication As An Art

4th Quarter Project
Communicatio
n As An Art
Submitted to: Gemma J. De vera

Submitted by: Shenia Clarisse S.
Tagarda
Date submitted: march 2, 2017
Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki and

Hiroshima-1945
The Holocaust
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the

Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6
and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World
War 1. The United States had dropped the bombs with the
consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec
Agreement. The two bombings, which killed at least
129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons
for warfare in history.
Japan announced its surrender to the Allies on August 15,
six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet
Unions Declaration of War. On September 2, the
Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender,
effectively ending World War II. The ethical justification for
the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is still debated to
this day, mainly because more than a hundred thousand
civilians were killed.
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a
genocide in which approximately six million Jews
were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust
that includes the additional five million non-Jewish
victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to
approximately eleven million. Killings took place
throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied
territories.
Jews were the primary victims - six million were
murdered. Roma (Gypsies), physically and mentally
disabled people and Poles were also targeted for
destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or
national reasons. Millions more, including
homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners
of war, and political dissidents also suffered
grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.
Fall of Berlin Wall

On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German
Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a
barbed wire and concrete Antifascistischer Schutzwall, or
antifascist bulwark, between East and West Berlin. The official
purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western fascists from
entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it
primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from
East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989,
when the head of the East German Communist Party announced
that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they
pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some
crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers
and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day,
the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring
symbols of the Cold War.
The Great Depression

The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and
longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the
Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great
Depression began soon after the stock market crash of
October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped
out millions of investors. Over the next several years,
consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep
declines in industrial output and rising levels of
unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. By
1933, when the Great Depression reached its nadir, some 13
to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of
the countrys banks had failed. Though the relief and reform
measures put into place by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
helped lessen the worst effects of the Great Depression in the
1930s, the economy would not fully turn around until after
1939, when World War II kicked American industry into high
gear.
Attack on Pearl Harbor

Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of
Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base
at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted
just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese
managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels,
including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300
airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and
sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were
wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan;
Congress approved his declaration with just one
dissenting vote. Three days later, Japanese allies
Germany and Italy also declared war on the United
States, and again Congress reciprocated. More than two
years into the conflict, America had finally joined World
War II
Fall of the Soviet Union
On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin
in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier,
representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the
Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan
and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and
announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet
Union. Instead, they declared they would establish a
Commonwealth of Independent States. Because the three
Baltic republics (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) had already
declared their independence from the USSR, only one of its
15 republics, Georgia, remained. The once-mighty Soviet
Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical
reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had
implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR.
However, Gorbachev was disappointed in the dissolution of
his nation and resigned from his job on December 25. It was
a peaceful end to a long, terrifying and sometimes bloody
epoch in world history.
Vietnam War
Sinking of the Titanic

The Vietnam War is the commonly used name for the Second Indochina
War, 19541973. Usually, it refers to the period when the United States
and other members of the SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
joined the forces of the Republic of South Vietnam in contesting
communist forces comprised of South Vietnamese guerrillas and regular-
force units, generally known as Viet Cong (VC), and the North Vietnamese
Army (NVA). The U.S. had the largest foreign military presence and
basically directed the war from 1965 to 1968. For this reason, in Vietnam
today it is known as the American War. It was a direct result of the First
Indochina War (19461954) between France, which claimed Vietnam as a
colony, and the communist forces then known as Viet Minh. In 1973 a
third Vietnam war begana continuation, actuallybetween North and
South Vietnam but without significant U.S. involvement. It ended with
communist victory in April 1975.
The Vietnam War was the longest in U.S. history, until the war in
Afghanistan that began in 2002 and continues at this writing (2013). It was
extremely divisive in the U.S., Europe, Australia and elsewhere. Because
the U.S. failed to achieve a military victory and the Republic of South
Vietnam was ultimately taken over by North Vietnam, the Vietnam
experience became known as the only war America ever lost. It remains
a very controversial topic that continues to affect political and military
decisions today.
A century has sailed by since the luxury steamship RMS
Titanic met its catastrophic end in the North Atlantic,
plunging two miles to the ocean floor after sideswiping an
iceberg during its maiden voyage. Rather than the intended
Port of New York, a deep-sea grave became the pride of the
White Star Lines final destination in the early hours of
April 15, 1912. More than 1,500 people lost their lives in
the disaster. In the decades since her demise, Titanic has
inspired countless books and several notable films while
continuing to make headlines, particularly since the 1985
discovery of her resting place off the coast of
Newfoundland. Meanwhile, her story has entered the
public consciousness as a powerful cautionary tale about
the perils of human hubris.
Chernobyl Disaster
The day before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, plant operators were
preparing for a one-time shutdown to perform routine maintenance on
reactor number 4. In violation of safety regulations, operators disabled
plant equipment including the automatic shutdown mechanisms,
according to the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic
Radiation (UNSCEAR).
At 1:23 a.m. on April 26, when extremely hot nuclear fuel rods were
lowered into cooling water, an immense amount of steam was created,
which because of the RBMK reactors' design flaws created more
reactivity in the nuclear core of reactor number 4. The resultant power
surge caused an immense explosion that detached the 1,000-ton plate
covering the reactor core, releasing radiation into the atmosphere and
cutting off the flow of coolant into the reactor.
A few seconds later, a second explosion of even greater power than the
first blew the reactor building apart and spewed burning graphite and
other parts of the reactor core around the plant, starting a number of
intense fires around the damaged reactor and reactor number 3, which
was still operating at the time of the explosions.
Apollo 11
On July 20, 1969,

American astronauts
Neil Armstrong (1930-
2012) and Edwin
Buzz Aldrin (1930-)
became the first humans
ever to land on the
moon. About six-and-a-
half hours later,
Armstrong became the
first person to walk on
the moon. As he set took
his first step, Armstrong
famously said, Thats
one small step for man,
one giant leap for
mankind. The Apollo
11 mission occurred
eight years after
President John Kennedy
(1917-63) announced a
national goal of landing
a man on the moon by
the end of the 1960s.
Apollo 17, the final
manned moon mission,
took place in 1972.

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4th Quarter Project

Submitted to: Gemma J. De vera

Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki and

The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the

Fall of Berlin Wall

The Great Depression

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Sinking of the Titanic

On July 20, 1969,

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