Film Lesson -"The Right Stuff"

The competition between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. was something known as the "Space Race". Just like the Arms Race, both countries were trying to develop ways to get into space quicker than the other country. In the movie, the Russians got the first satellite up into space, as well as the first man. The U.S. had accomplished getting the first monkey into space. The U.S. also accomplished making many orbits around the earth. So technically, the U.S.S.R. had won the space race. One scene from the movie that I will remember is the scene when the American astronauts first made it into space and continued making orbits around the earth and
the scene that would help me remember the Cold War would have to be when the man ran into the presidents office, and trips, and they said your late again. I think this scene would help me remember the cold war best.

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major event that occurred during the Cold War, this crisis brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union close to a fierce nuclear war. This nuclear war would be between more than just the U.S. and the Soviet Union, it would put most of the world at war. The possibility of having many countries take part in this war is due to the creation of NATO and The Warsaw Pact which created alliances between many nations.The Cuban Missile Crisis began with a Nuclear Arms race in which the U.S. competed against the Soviet Union to create the strongest nuclear weapons. During the race both nations felt hardships and surpassed one another in technological advancements. During 1962, the Soviet fell very behind the U.S. and in order to stand up and defend against a nuclear war the Soviet needed Cuba. The Soviet Union set up nuclear weapons in Cuba and would launch them against the U.S. when needed. The Soviets felt that using Cuba would be a very smart thing to do, they needed to be prepared with backup in case of a nuclear attack. A few days later President John F. Kennedy found out about the Soviet's plan. Kennedy decided to surround Cuba with ships and stop the Soviets from bringing more nuclear weapons to the island. To put a stop to this crisis Kennedy came up with a proposal for the Soviet Union, Kennedy wanted the Soviet Union to remove all nuclear weapons and personnel from Cuba and in exchange the U.S. would not invade Cuba.

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO was an organization that involved countries in Europe and North America. It was an agreement where they would help each other if they need money or help fighting other countries which is the main reason of forming this organization. NATO transformed itself from being a military force to a political force from the downfall of communism and eliminated military alliances.The Warsaw Pact was formed 6 years after NATO's formation by Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolay Bulganin. It involved mostly the Soviet Union and it's satellite countries. It was first made to be another mutual defense alliance like NATO but it formed a communist military alliances to keep power over Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union took control over it's allies attacking Czechoslovakia and Hungary. This pact renewed for another 20 years. Slowly the Warsaw Pact was beginning to separate. East Germany decided to withdrew from the pact and join West Germany to reunify Germany again and then the leaders of the remaining 6 countries in the pact decided to dissolve this.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

I personally thought "Schindler's list" was more powerful than "Night and Fog" but it was also difficult to watch. I was disqusted on how Germans treated the Jews. The "Night and Fog" was documentary and they filmed the place way after the Holocaust. They showed the abandoned place. They showed around the place explaining the way they had to live and how crowded they had to stay together. The scene that moved me the most was the clip when the people who found the dead bodies everywhere had to use a bulldozer to push away all the bodies. The people were all skinny and nothing but bones. The Germans started losing the war at the end so the Germans wouldnt feed the Jews. They couldnt feed the Jews or their own citizens. The Germans also ran out of coal to burn the Jews' bodies but they couldnt fuel the ovens. When the Americans went on the land, they found dead bodies everywhere. It was a horrible image. The Schindler's list didnt show the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Schindler's List

What i thing that the film illustrate about the Holocaust was that most of the Jews dead in this period of time and no man or woman could safe them from there own death. The most powerful scenes for me was when most of the Jews where put in some cages and the Germany's trow some poison gas that kill more then 6,000 people in a instance and after that that toke them to a other part and there where some people burning the dead body's of the Jews. The image that will stay with me is when there was a girl with a red coat in point she was walking throw some Germany's and goes up to a house and hides under the bed then after that all most in the end of the film the girl appears again but this time she is dead and she was going to get burred form some other people.

US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945

I'd have to aggree that the bombing of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the biggest event of the 20th century. The sheer magnitude of the bombings make them unsurpassable on the list of 100 top events. The dropping of the bombs not only killed well over 300 thousand people over a 10 year span, but the bombs also signified a major land mark in world history. It was the first time that nuclear warfare took place. People have attempted genecide before, there's been hundreds of wars, hundreds of thousands of people have been assassinated, but nothing has, and possibly ever will, ammount of the uneasy feeling the atomicc bombs created. On the list of 100 biggest events, I'd probably only move the Treaty of Versailles higher on the list since it started the initial domino effect that created the holocaust, world war 2, and the atomic bombings of Japan.