Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

The US and the USSR were competing in the film "The Right Stuff" to see who can get to outer-space first. The Russian was winning the competition because they where using animals to test out the rocket and other test that the astronauts went through to see if they can handle the pressure of outside space.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Kennedy eventually ordered low-level reconnaissance missions once every two hours. The Cuba Missile Crisis was considered “the hottest moment in the Cold War”? Because Cuba declared that they will bomb all their enemies with more powerful bombs that were more powerful than the last that they created. On the 25th Kennedy pulled the quarantine line back and raised military readiness to defcon 2. Then on the 26th ex-comm. heard from Khrushchev in an impassioned letter. He proposed removing Soviet missiles and personnel if the U.S. would guarantee not to invade Cuba. October 27 was the worst day of the crisis.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is an organization that includes countries in Europe and North America. The reason for the formation of NATO was that the 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. The Warsaw pact consisted mostly of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. It was supposed to be another mutual defense alliance like the North Atlantic Treaty, and was created in response to it. The Soviet Union dominated the alliance. The Europeaians formed NATO, and the Soviet Union formed the warsaw pact.