"The Right Stuff"

The US and the Soviet Union were competing against each other to see who could make the furthest advancements into space. In the beginning of the film they showed how America was trying to break sound barrier. Of course they kept this as a secret because they did not wanted Russia to know what was going on. Then further into the film America found out that Russia launched the first rocket into space. At this point the Russians were winning the competition because they launched the first satellite and the rocket into space. The scenes that will help me remember the Cold War would be when people were being selected for the astronaut mission.The experiments that they were put to looked painful but necessary because the Americans didn't want anything to go wrong.These men being tested had to be strong, healthy, have a college degree, as well as having to be a pilot. At the end seven men were chosen to go to space for the first time.

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO is an organization that includes some countries in Europe and North America.
The Warsaw Pact was formed as communist military alliance to maintain power over Eastern Europe. The major reason for the formation of NATO was that the countries involved wanted a defense alliance so that if one of the countries were to be attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come and help. The Warsaw Pact was made by Russia and many other republics in Europe. The countries within the Warsaw Pact promised to defend each other if any other country within the alliance was attacked.