The Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis was a decision to all the Soviet Union to have base nuclear missiles in Cuba. This event was the closest the US got into a war. The United States challenged the Soviet Union and they want the Soviet Union to remove the missiles. President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev told the Soviet to leave the island and take their missile with them before both the USA and USSR destroy the world with their nuclear weapons; because of these people the war was prevented.

I think that President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev did the right thing by telling the Soviet to leave because if they didn’t there would be another war just like WWII and their would be million of people dying because of the toxic of the missiles and it would be bad for the world because the toxic would be spreading around the world. I think that after United States launched an atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, other countries got scared and they wanted to be prepared with a backup plan. As a result to this the Soviet Union installed missiles in Cuba 90 miles off the coast of United States.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is an intercontinental defense alliance between the United States, Great Britain and other countries, which formed in 1949 as a response to spread communism. They made this organization as to have mutual defense for example if one country attack another then the NATO would come and help them.

Warsaw Pact was an organization similar to NATO, which took place in Central Eastern Europe. This was also called as Treaty of Friendship. This treaty was created on May 14, 1955 in Warsaw Poland.

United States joined the organization to prevent from Russia attacking them because if Russia and United States both have a nuclear war between each other then both of these countries will affect the environment in huge way because after they nuke each other the toxic of the missile will go to the atmosphere and spread throughout the other countries.

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The film "Right Stuff" was about US and USSR and how they were competing with each other. The USSR send a satellite into space which led to the US breaking the sound barrier. Later on the US realized that the USSR has rocket.

The US felt embarrassed so they were looking for the best of best pilot to go to space. They were training them to see if they are capable of what it takes to go to the space.
The US did so many tests to launch a Rocket but it was unsuccessful. However they tried and tried and hopefully they accomplished. The US sends a monkey into space. however the USSR sends a man into space. The US wanted to build a rocket that will be faster than Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union was winning during the competition because there were the first to launch a rocket, a first to launch a satellite called sputnik, which made the US so mad. The scene from the movie, which reminded about the cold war, is when there were training the people so they can be tough and strong to go to the space. Another scene was when they heard the news that the Russian (Soviet Union) launched sputnik. The US wanted to be the top of the world by beating the Soviet Union in their own game but there plan backed because the Russian were always ahead.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

“Schindler's List” is a Hollywood version movie based on the holocaust and how the Jews were treated and how they were killed. This movie demonstrates how the Jews went from the ghettos to the concentrated camps and how the Nazi find different ways to kill them the Jews. This movie is about 195 minutes long so it is packed with a lot of information and details about the holocaust. This movie is not as much as effective as “Night and Fog” because in this film Nazi were killing the Jews for interest and because they were bored.

This movie focuses on the young children and how they didn’t have the ability or the skills to work so were separated and taken away and later be killed. One thing I noticed about this film is that this entire movie is black and white however you see a small Jewish girl wearing red. I believe that the director portrait this effect to show how the lives of the children didn’t matter to them. They just wanted to kill the Jews and be done with it because they knew if they leave someone behind they can reproduce.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

Night and Fog was a documentary about Holocaust. This movie was filmed in 1955. Night and Fog illustrated the lives of the Jews and how the German treated them. My reaction to night and fog was that it purely showed that German treated the Jews so cruelly and brutally. The German’s put the Jews in concentration camps and tried many ways to kill them. One way they try to kill them is by shooting them. Another way is by killing them with gas. Most of the Jews worked for the Nazi.

This was an advantage for them because they didn’t get killed right away. The Nazi took almost everything the Jews had from their jewelry to their hairs to their shoes and left nothing for them. This film is different from “Schindler's List” because this movie took place almost about 10 years after the holocaust occurred. Another way that it showed the exact thing that happened to the Jews they didn’t add much details like the Hollywood version. This film is more effective because they went straight to the point and give as much details they can about the Holocaust.