Film Lesson : "The Right Stuff"

During the film the US and the USSR were competing against each other. They were competing to have a space program. In the beginning the Russians were winning to get the space program against them. They had the first satellite in space which was called the "Sputnik". The first man in space was also from Russia as well. The United States were the first ones to go to the moon and plant the US flag on it. All the US sent was a monkey to space after Russia sent a human. During the Cold War the United States showed how they didn't want Russia to know what they were doing. When the guy broke the sound barrier the United States didn't want Russia to know as well that it had happened.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO- is an organization of people in the countries in Europe and North America. The reason why they did that was to make an alliance system. They wanted that so if one country attacked any of the ones in the NATO organization they would all help them fight back together. So its practically like if it was countries ganging up together just incase another country wants to fight against them. Now that Europe and North America were together they have a better chance of fighting together than by them selves. That is one reason why they did the NATO and what it is. All of this had happened during the Cold War in 1947.

The Warsaw Pact- was mostly the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. That was supposed to be another alliance system like the North Atlantic Treaty, but it was made to a response towards it. The Soviet Union attacked Czechoslovakia in 1956.  They also took military action against Hungary.  Both of these were members of the Warsaw Pact. East Germany decided the leave The Warsaw Pact and join the West Germany to become a reunified Germany in 1990. That is what The Warsaw Pact was and what had happened during that time period.