Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The United States and the USSR were competing of who come first and set a world record of breaking the sound barrier by making an airplane that was called MACH I. Another one was when which country would bring the first man to space. Russians were ahead of America and they built space ships. So America came together to gather a team of astraunauts which were really good and smart pilots that can take the job. America was the first ones to put a monkey to space when they were testing the spacecraft. Russia finally were two weeks ahead of the U.S and they were the first ones to bring a man in space. The first man to go to space was a Russian. The Russians were the first to also put satelites in space. After this the Russians won the competition. The scenes that will help me remember the Cold War was when Russia and the U.S were competing against each other of whose the best country to break records like when the U.S broke the record of the sound barrier. A second scene that I'll remember was when they broke the sound barrier they didn't want the press to write a report on it so that the Russians won't ghet ahead of them. America weren't friends with the Russians because they were a communist country and that they've only helped the in WWII. Another scene was when the U.S wanted to be the first ones to go to space and they got seven of the best smart pilots to go to space.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which is a military alliance. NATO was an organization of countries that were involved in a mutual defense alliance. This means that if one them were attacked the countries allied to them would help them. The Warsaw Pact was another mutual defense alliance like NATO but an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The NATO's alliances were countries in Western Europe and North America. NATO was formed by these alliances because they wanted to stop the spread of communism and if one their alliance countries were attacked the other countries would come and help them. The alliances for the Warsaw Pact were communist states in Eastern Europe and Central Europe. Warsaw Pact was formed by these alliances because the communist military alliance wanted to maintain power over Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union gained both control over its neighboring European nations.