Current Event Project

Ukraine's president declared a truce in his nation.
Not sure if it will last through talks.
Breakthrough when protesters agreed to move out of Kiev's City Hall and unblock downtown streets.
Authorities say at least 26 people in all have been killed in clashes in Kiev.
Even after the truce demonstrators continued to throw pavement and rocks at police and protesters continued explosions.
After many attacks the fight still goes on.
This ties to Civil War because it is on the rise of becoming a civil war.
This relates to Nationalism because the people are coming together to say that they are not happy that Yanukovych pulled back from a trade pact with the European Union.
cnn.com

George Bizos defended Mandela in 1960's trial leading to an anti-apartheid leader being sentenced to life in prison.
Many activists went into other fields or retirement, but at 85 years old he resists retiring from human rights work.
He works for Legal Resources Centre in South Africa.
At 13 he arrived in South Africa fleeing the Nazi occupation during World War 2.
He contributed to when Mandela turned the white rule to a democratic government.
This relates to apartheid because they made an apartheid when ending the white minority rule.
This ties to human rights because they helped establish human rights back into South Africa.
foxnews.com

Ukraine's acting president gave Crimea's leaders a deadline to release hostages came and went after pro-Russian activists stormed Ukraine's navy headquarters.
The uneasy standoff between the two could ignite into a bloody conflict.
Marina Kanalyuk said seventy or so Ukrainian naval officers had tried to stop the pro-Russians from entering and were negociating with them, but the armed men still replaced the Ukrainian flags with russian flags with no shots fired.
United Nations designated Crimea as a "demilitarized zone", Ukraine was prepared to evacuate into facilaties.
VP Joe Biden stressed that the U.S. was committed to the defense of NATO allies and had stern words for Moscow's response to Ukraine.
Officials are keeping close eye on the number of heavily equipted Russian forces near Ukraine.
Prime Minister warned that the crisis was shifting "from political to the military form..."
Putin made it clear that Moscow has no intension of relinquishing its grip on Crimea.
This ties to a junta because it says that it is turning to a military form.
This ties to NATO also because the Secretary General warned of the organization's fear that Russia may move into Ukraine.
Cnn.com

The Great Lakes water levels are expected to rise increasingly.
Sportsmen, farmers, fish and shipping industry all stand to benefit from the deep freeze in the Midwest.
For the first time since 1978 ice has covered nearly all of the Great Lakes.
The water trapped below the ice layer has prevented the lakes from evaporating away the same way they have for the past few decades.
The lakes are expected to rise 13-15 inches.
Keith Kompoltowicz said that although the levels have risen significantly they are still a foot below the all-time average high.
Since there is still an ice cover means that it is likely that it will stall the evaporation rates.
For Lake Michigan the shipping industry has been forced to lighten their loads because the water levels have been so low the past few years so they will benefit from the rise.
Ice cover levels have broke 92% as of March 6th and remains above 80%.
The higher levels can also help marinas by having more docking space for boats and the tourism boost because of newly replenished sandy beaches.
This relates to the Great Lakes because they are rising in water levels.
This also relates to trade/travel because the increase in levels will increase fish and shipping industries.
Foxnews.com

Japan and the Unites States have co-signed an agreement to remove and dispose of hundreds of kilograms of uranium and plutonium from the Asian nation.
The material will be transported from Japan to a "secure facility" in the U.S., according a statement by the White House.
Both Japan and the U.S. are finding new ways to improve the global nuclear security.
The U.S. has a longstanding goal of reducing the world'd stockpile of fissile material.
The National Security Council said that this is the biggest commitment in the history of the summit process and it is a demonstration of Japan's shared leadership on nonproliferation.
Beijing criticized Tokyo for stockpiling nuclear material and suggesting that they can make weapons pretty quickly.
The U.S. hopes to convince more nations to use secure facilities in existing nuclear states to minimize proliferation risks.
This relates to isolationism because the U.S. is not participating in it by worrying about other countries's nuclear weapons.
This also ties to The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because Japan's leader wants to demonstate their leadership on nonproliferation.
Cnn.com

The expert Rebeccah Heinrichs stressed that it is very important to support NATO allies and that we need stricter sanctions on Moscow while their troops began to build up on the Ukrainian border.
She suggests that we send some military equipment to Ukraine and military exercises because we need to defend our allies.
Obama pledged that the U.S. will always uphold solemn obligation, defend the sovereignty and integrity of our allies to the European allies.
Rebeccah also says that the U.S. needs to counterbalance NATO's position in Europe, although critics believe that the America is spread to thin overseas.
She said that Vladimir Putin understands that he doesn't want to get into a war with the Unites States, therefore we must be willing to actually support NATO allies.
Heinrichs lastly said that NATO is an important alliance and we can't allow the alliance to fall apart.
This relates to NATO because the U.S. has to support it's allies.
This also relates to sovereignty because Obama said that the U.S. will defend the sovereignty of our allies.
Foxnews.com

Current Events Project