Film Lesson "The Right Stuff"

The film lesson "The Right stuff" was based on the history of the United States and the Soviet Union during the “Space Race”. They completed each other to see who would develop the first rocket ship to make it to space. "The Right Stuff" was about the test pilots who are the astronauts and there first attempts in the United States at spaceflight. When Russia sent the first satellite into space, America was infuriated. We wanted to win this race and by them putting the first satellite they looked better than us. The United States needed something more powerful, but putting a person in space was to risky, so instead we decided to send out a monkey into space. Russia decided to take the risk and send a person. In the beginning The Russians were winning the competition because, there were 3 different activities. Russia was the first one to complete 2 activities than the Americans. They launched the first satellite and the rocket. At the end we won the space race because we were able to send the first man to the moon. Russia was a communist country and the United States was Capitalist. Some scenes that will help me remember the cold war event was when Russia and the U.S were competing against each other and when the U.S broke the record of the sound barrier. This scene was important because it showed the frustration of the US trying to break the sound barrier, and also our reaction when we were able to actually break it. They didn’t want the press to write a report on it so that the Russians wouldn’t get ahead of them. Another Scene was when the US wanted to be the first ones to go to space and they got seven of the best pilots to go to space. In order for them to go to space they had to be strong, smart, and healthy. This scene was painful and horrifying because they had to do a lot of events and experiments to see if they were good enough to be astronauts. From all the people that tried out only seven people were able to complete the examination.

NATO and Warsaw Pact

The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established April, 4, 1949. It was an agreement which involved 12 nations, that included the United States and the United Kingdom. The NATO was established with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty. It was basically a defensive system of alliance for some European countries and North America.
The system was used as defense against the soviets and other countries, stating that if any country in the NATO, had to go to war, the other countries of the NATO would come to their aid. The NATO became very important to the U.S, the Soviets expanded in territory and spread communism. To counter the NATO alliance of its enemies, the Soviet Union created an alliance between itself and its satellite countries. Satellite Countries were bordering countries around Russia. They were a method of protection for the Soviets.

The Warsaw Pact was an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The treaty was signed in Warsaw, Poland on May 14, 1955. The treaty was a direct response to West Germany joining the NATO in 1955. The Warsaw Pact was formed as communist military alliance to maintain power over Eastern Europe.
NATO said they would not support any country who signed the Warsaw Pact. With these two alliances, both sides where prepared for war, and tension between them continued to grow. The Soviets kept military in their other countries, this was the Soviets first attempt to strengthen themselves after the war.In 1956, the Soviet Union attacked Czechoslovakia and took military action against Hungary. Both of these countries were members of the Warsaw Pact.