Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The United States and the U.S.S.R were competing in the movie "The Right Stuff" to get Mach 1, which was the faster then the speed of sound. The first person to do that was an American pilot, the competition had only begun. The next competition the U.S and the U.S.S.R had was the first person into space and the U.S.S.R came out on top, the U.S. was always playing catch up to keep up.

The scenes that will help me remember the Cold war are the pilots and all of the rockets trying to fly up but failing. Another scene that will help me remember the Cold War is when the United States pilot broke the Mach 1. The last very important scene that i will remember is when the Russians sent the first man into space and the United States pilot said at least well be the first free man in space.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is an organization that the countries in Europe and North America formed to try to stop communist nations. One major reason that NATO was formed because  countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come to their aide, just like as if World War I.

 The Warsaw Pact consisted mostly of the Soviet Union and other Communist countries.  It was supposed to be another mutual defense alliance like the one that NATO had, and was created in response to it.  The Soviet Union was the biggest and most powerful country in the alliance.  The Soviet Union kept part of their military in the other countries in the alliance to make them socialist nations.  

The countries involved in NATO were Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and the United Kingdom, later followed by the United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.

The Warsaw Pact included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovak, Hungary, Poland, Romania, West Germany, and the USSR.