Film Lesson "The Right Stuff"

In the movie "The Right Stuff" the competeing of Russia and US was shown by showing the Space race they were having. At the first the Russians were winning the space race. They were the first to lanuch the a spacecraft to outer space. Also they were first to send a man to space and make him come back safely to Earth.
One event that I would remember was when the man would run to the building and tell the men what the Russians did and the other men would say we know. Also the scenes shown of the Russians. The scene that I remember the most was the scene when the US broke the sound barrier.

Cuban Missle Crisis

During the Cold War Russia and the United States had an arm race. This was a race to see who had the best nuclear weapons. Russia was way behind the US to win the arm race. In 1962 Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev made a plan to create an installation in Cuba so that the missile would be able to reach the US. Fidel Castro agreed with this plan of the Russians. In the summer of that very year the Russians began to make the installation secretly so that the US would not find out about it.
How ever on October 15, 1962 the US received photographs of the secret base. The very next day President John F Kennedy made the announcement of the base in Cuba. He got advise for what to do from 12 advisors. He blockaded the ships that went to Cuba to send supplies to make the base. Nikita would tell his commanders to get the missiles ready. How ever on October 26, 1962 he announced that he would be taking out the base from Cuba.
The Cuban missile crisis was considered the hottest moment in the Cold War because it was the closest to having a nuclear war.

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO and the Warsaw pact were both alliences to help back up countries. The countries that were part of the NATO were North America, and some countries in Europe. For the Warsaw pact there were Russia and Easterned Europe. If one of the countries would be in dangered the other countries in the alliences would have their back. They wanted Mutal defense. The NATO felt threatened by Russias communist ways.
The Warsaw Pact was made in response for the NATO. The Russians wanted to have other countries to back them up. They took over the countries next to Russia. The countries were called the Satellite Conuntries.

Film Lesson " Night and Fog"

I think that the movie Night and Fog was eye wakening. Some of the scenes in the movie were very disgusting. They showed human bodies. The movie was extremely powerful. Some scene did match with those shown in Schindler's list. The think that the hollywood movie illsturted the holocaust better. The movie showed more of a personal account of what on in the holocaust. Also the hollywood movie showed what actually happened with the Jews as a visual which I like more then with words.

Film Lesson: "Schindler List"

Schindler List illustrates the hololcaust by showing the story of Schindler. It showed how most people hated the Jews, however it showed that some actually helped the Jews get out of getting killed. The scene that I remember is the liquitation of the Krakow ghetto. This scene showed how people would eat their jewlry. Also the scene in which the nurse and the doctor posioned the sick so the Nazi would not kill them and they would not die a painful death. The scene that stuck with me was the scene in which there was a man holding a women asking for help to a Nazi and he just shot her in his arms. This scene would always stay with me because it was one of the scene that was the sadest it made me mad.

US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945

I do believe that the bomb dropping in Japan is the top news of the century because it shows there so death in the event and it created such a big debate that even until this day people don't agree on whether the droppings of the bombs was a good idea. I don't think that there was a bigger event then the dropping of the bomb.
One thing I would change is the placement of the Cuban missile crisis. I would have placed this news as 14. I think that this is way more important because it could have started another World War. That would go done in history as the start of WW 3. Most of all it involves that many countries making it news of various opinions and importance.

Germany at War - WW2

Propaganda is information used to spread to harm or helps someone. This poster has to do with Germany taking contorl of the European countries. This poster says that German had a lot of power and wanted to rule all of Europe and any country they could get a hand on.
The poster show a graveyard with a cross saying Churchhill which shows the failure of England. Then theres a fist punching some Russian person which indicates that Germany was tring to take contorl over Russia as well. Then a baby in a cradle which is to indicate that the German's reason to wanting to invade Russia was for security reasons. Lastly the Germans say that they also invade Russia for prosperity which was indicated by a living space of Germany.