Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The US and the USSR were competing on who had the better space program. They at first competed on who could send a man into space first. The Russians succeded first as the US only sent a chimpanzee into space, while the Russians succeded in sending a man. The Russians were clearly winning the competition.

Scenes that I will remember from this movie are all the Rocket failures that NASA had, as it was strange to see how bad it was in the beginning. I will also remember the scene of when the pilot was able to pass the sound barrier in the jet plane. Lastly, I will rember the scenes of all the tests the scientists do on the austronauts, as they seem very intense.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is an organization that includes countries in Europe and North America. The major 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.
Along with helping European nations with defense, since the western European nations were economically in shambles at the end of WWII, the agreement also helped them with economic aide under the Marshall Plan. This would be done as long as the countries agreed to cooperate with each other. This would help them rebuild more quickly and get them on good terms.