Film Lesson: The Right Stuff

During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union were competing with each other to see which of the two would be more advanced in modern time. In this film "The Right Stuff" it shows how both these two superpowers we're trying to be better than the other. The United States was the first to break the sound barrier by the 1950's. The sound barrier is when an aircraft goes from transonic to supersonic speed. These were one of the things that the United States did not want to inform Russia in because the United States wanted to be the only ones with it at that time. Another example of the Russians and American's competing in this film was the space race. The space race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could make the furthest advancements into space first. In the film, the Russians beat the United States with getting into space first which led the United States to gather up the United States best test pilots out there and put them into many different tests to see if they meet the requirement the United States ask for. As a result the United States had their first 7 astronauts chosen to go outer space. The United States was unsure if to or not send humans outer space and instead sent up a chimp to go. Then not so long after that, the Soviet Union got ahead and put a man up and made the United States look bad because they sent up a monkey. Then again, the United States desperate to get ahead of the Soviet, they sent up a man to go to the moon and winning the space race.

The scenes that would make me remember the Cold War events are the sound barrier attempts and achieving it by the United States and the Space Race attempts and both the United States and Soviet Union having their achievements. These scenes would remind me of the Cold War event is because, it shows how much the United States could accomplish if they have a rival that is almost equal to the U.S how much modern technology could grew in just a minor of time.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO also known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between the Western countries in Europe and the United States in April 4 1949. After the World War II had ended in greatly damaged the European's economy and military, and the U.S agreed to give them supplies. It was an organization constitutes a system of collective defense where its members agreed to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. Around that time period, the east use to be communism and NATO was made to stop communism from spreading to the west side of the world.

The Warsaw Pact was an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe in May 14, 1955. The Warsaw Pact was created in response to West Germany joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1955. They were similar to NATO in ways such as political Consultative Committee, followed by a civilian secretary-general, while down the chain of command there was a military commander in chief and a combined staff, other than that their similarities ended around that point. NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries never engaged each other in armed conflict, but fought the Cold War for more than 35 years often through proxy wars. Proxy wars is a war that results when two powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly. Their plan were the complete opposite from the NATO, they were trying to spread communism and stop western influence.