The Cuban Missile crisis

The Cuban missile crisis was the hottest part of the war because it was the closest we came to an actual war. The two nations were ready to destroy each other because they all had their armed forces and defenses ready for a nuclear war.
The Cuban Missile crisis started by this man called Nikita Khrushchev who wanted to install missiles in Cuba. Fidel Castro approved of this because he feared that the U.S would attack them because of the Failed Pig Invasion. John F. Kennedy heard of this from his specialists. He said that an attack from Cuba with the missiles would be considered an attack from the Soviets themselves. Nikita eased the crisis by stating that he would take out the missiles form Cuba.

NATO and Warsaw Pact

The NATO and Warsaw pact were two alliances formed during the cold war. NATO was formed in the United States because the Americans were scared of an attack from the soviets. NATO was a defensive alliance against any military attacks from the Soviets. The Warsaw Pact was sort of an anti-alliance formed by Josef Stalin. He made the Warsaw Pact because he found NATO as a threat toward the Soviets.

The Right Stuff

In the movie "The Right Stuff", The U.S and U.S.S.R were competing in a technological race. The movie starts off with the 2 nations competing to break the sound barrier with an airplane. The United States broke the sound barrier first when they reached Mach 1. Then The Soviet Union beat us by going a lot faster. Then the Soviets put the first satellite in space which angered the Americans so the U.S started to build a space program and tried to send someone or something in space. The U.S managed to put a monkey into space. Then the Soviets managed to put an actual man into space beating us in the space race.

Schindler's List

Schindler's list looked like a very good representaion of the holocaust. It shows the holocaust as a very dark and horrible time which is what the holocaust was. However compared to Night anf Fog, Schindler's List was not as graphic and disgusting. Schindler's list was still a very powerful film because it shows all the hardships and tough times that the jewish people had to go through.
One of the scenes that i will remember is the scene where the jewish people are all listening to the radio hearing the reporter that the war is over and that Hitler was defeated. Even though the jewish people didn't look very happy, they must have felt like a rush of joy and victory for surviving those horrible times.

Night and Fog

Night and Fog was a very disturbing film. I always new that the death camps were horrible but seeing it visually was still surprising and frightening. In my own personal opinion, the documentary was more graphic than the scenes from Schindler's List. Schindler's List was more dramtic and saddening, while Night and Fog was scary and disturbing.