Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The film "The Right Stuff" was two countries competing to build the first rocket and competing for other things too. The country included the United State and the USSR (Soviet Union); they were trying competing by seeing which of them had the best astronauts and rockets. They did everything they needed too, so they can get their best results. The USSR was the first one to send man in space and the United State send a monkey in space instead they did not want to send a man and the rocket blows up it will look bad because that’s taking the life of a human but if a monkey dies people wont make such a big deal about it. But even if the USSR (Soviet Union) were ahead of us we still got to win the competition because we had better technology that was expanding more and we had some of the best trained astronauts working for us which did a better job then them, plus we went even farther than them in space. That made our abilities greater then theirs.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949. It was created to prevent USSR to spread communism. It was inpact of communist countries, just like the NATO which was for the Democratic government. Countries that were in NATO were Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, & United States. These were the 26 countries that are currently in the NATO, and on the Warsaw pact the countries were Soviet Union, Albania (until 1968), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany (until 1990), Hungary, Poland, and Romania. These were the two groups created as a defensive system. If one group attacks another group all of the countries envolved in the groups would declare war on each other. It was like friends protecting their friends, or we can say gangs. 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.