The Right Stuff

In this movie it talks about the space race which basically a race to get people into space. In this race there was America and Russia or the soviet union. It started when America reached Mach 1 which was surpassing 750 miles per hour which was a huge accomplishment. The reason why is because once you pass 750 mph you break the sound barrier. Once USSR launched the first satellite which was called sputnik America was scared because we thought they could fire nuclear bombs at us from there. Then we started to develop a rocket that would take us into space, it took a while but we finally developed a rocket that took us to space but a monkey was inside which upset ed the astronauts.

After that the Russians sent the first man into space which got some people angry. The Russians were winning the space race but we developed our ships so well we were the first people on the moon. Also Russia feel because of the economy and communism.

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO is a group of European and north America alliance. The reason for 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 help. If Russia attacked U.S NATO would attack Russia. The Warsaw pact was basically the Soviet Union and it was a arm race between Russian and America. We started making weapons which were mostly nukes. We came up with a new bomb called the H- bomb which was short for hydrogen bomb which was stronger than the atomic bomb. America and Russia kept on making them but never used them because they were scared that if one is fired there would be a nuclear war it would destroy all life on the earth. That's another reason why NATO was there to back up America. Soon the Russia economy fell proving that Communism was a bad type of way to rule a country.