The Cuban Missile Crisis

Basically the Cuban missile crisis was the most important point were the Cold War was not going to be Non-Violent, but it was going to get dirty and more violent than ever; to the point where the world was close to being at its end by nuclear war. Meaning that Russia would have bombed us from Cuba. We would have bombed Russia, Turkey Would have Bombed russia, etc... There we would ave had a nuclear war and there would have been nukes everywhere. Well in the Cuabn Missile Crisis the russian played dirty first because they started to plant bombs in Cuba without the US knowing. Then eventually the US noticed and they tried to call it off because Kennedy realized and he thought smart that if any bomb was released in any country Zillions of people would have died and the world might have suffered some type of disruption and humanity would have gone to waste. Kennedy proposed to give his Nukes that he had in turkey back to russia, hoping that russia would understand that the US would not invade Cuba. Russia seeing how US gave up there weapons ordered Cuba to un-activate the Nukes and they stopped sending deadly weapons to Cuba. So concluding this the Cuabn Missile Crisis was very close to destroynig the world if it wouldnt have been for the act of Kennedy who took the first move to say "hey lets stop, were gona end humanity", and did a deal.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the organization established a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. The Russians and The Americans had done different alliances to defend themselves seeming how each nation thought the other was going to attack but neither nation wanted to attack because they thought something would happen. Either way they would both end up destroying everything seeming how lot of the most deadly weapons was being held by these 2 nations. Moving on with another alliance made was The Warsaw Pact. What exactly was the Warsaw pact? A military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. So as you can see both countries held organizations in defense of the threat from the other country. In conclusion throughout the Cold War both countries had alliances to threaten or to defend themselves and the most important ones were the NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

Basically in this movie, the scenes we saw explained examples of how the USA and Soviet Union were having like a competition/Non-Violent war. The Cold war is basically when the USA and Russia had a war without weapons or any kind of physical attacks. They would just see to prove which nation is better. In the movie The Right Stuff shows when the US breaks a record of this new technology they have developed and when the media/ press is going to let it out on the news, the US says no don't release it. If Russia sees this they are going to try to beat us. This is one example of how the US doesn't permit the Russians to know about there achievements. Another example is when the US advances in technology they try to test men to see who can be the first one to step on the moon. The Americans got the first living thing on the moon but it wasn't actually a human being. It was a Chimpanzee. After the Americans managed to land that the Russians spend a lot of time trying to make a rocket launch, they failed a couple of times but then they got it and the Russians send the human to the moon but the moon was already claimed by the Americans. This comes to show the kind of war this was. In a way it was really like a competition or like two smart kids trying to see who can get the best grade and they do dirty moves to beat each other.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

In Schindlers list many images were very powerful and I'm sure stroke everyone who saw the movie, but some images were very strong. This Hollywood version describing the holocaust was very descriptive and had several scenes that got stuck to your memory. For me one of the most important scenes was the ones where they were killing all the Jews or where they were searching for the people in the ghetto to send them to concentration camps. Another scene that was very catchy was when they showed the little kids hiding from the Nazis and some of them were even hiding in the toilets full of dung. Even though these were scenes that were very powerful the whole movie explains very specifically how the things were. This movie is one of my favorite movies and i plan and watching it again another time. One thing thats pretty amazing is that the class didn't even see the whole movie, we only saw scenes, yet the movie still caught our attention.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

Night and fog is a very descriptive movie and described the holocaust very similarly. One thing that i saw in both the movies was that Night and Fog explained the holocaust using more evidence that was actually in the holocaust. Like for example they used real videos that were actually taken at place. They used real images where they showed the dead bodies; they even recorded how the place looks now a days meaning how the chambers were empty etc... I felt more touched though with schindlers list because they really didnt focus on showing you EXACTLY with real evidence how the holocaust was. They focused more on showing you the basic concept on what it was and making you realize how cruel that act of genocide was and how the Nazi's surpassed the border or abuse of human nature. Concluding i think the Shindlers List Movie meaning theo hollywood version, explained more effectively the Holocaust. If i would have seen only the night and fog i really wouldnt haveknown much about the holocaust and it would have just been "another social studies class", but schindlers list actually made me realize how bad the holocaust was.

The Treaty of Versailles (WWI)

As Known Hitler was a very powerful dictator who controlled very large armies of German troops. He was a very rebellious leader and had killed many people. He was in this alliance where Italy and France had like a treaty of peace between themselves. After the treaty of Versailles was made and Germany lost most of its power, they went into depression and Hitler couldn't stand this, so he gathered up a vast army and thus caused WWII.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and The Modenization Of Turkey

Mustaka Kemal took a decision that changed turkey completely. He decided to make the country of turkey completely non-religous. This affected turkey because religion influenced many people's culture's and its reallyhard to just change your whole life that was based on your ancenstors and religion just because this guy tells you to be non-religous. Mustafa Kemals idea was to modernize turkey and to make turkey like the other countries. Being modernized does not mean that you completely have to erase religion; that is where he went wrong and so turkey's religion was non-religuos until Mustafa Kemals was there.

Film Lesson "Gandhi

Gandhi was a great historical figure and made one of the biggest contributions to the world. He gave independence to India without having to use physical violence. Gandhi made several movements that the british would hate but can only win by using injustice. Gandhi started thinking that he can easily get Indian troops to fight the English but as he said "An Eye for an Eye only leaves the whole world blind". It means if the indians fight back it would only leed to more chaos and destruction. Gandhi used another technique that was very successful and actually legal; he didnt fight back. He would rebel against the british orders and when the british would arrest hurt or kill them he would just show resistance. There was a point where the british realized they were losing money, they started to look bad and were doing illegal things, at this point, the british gave up and india had won its independence.India lived happily but one day a seek killed Gandhi. Ever since Gandhi has been greatly honored and recognized all over the world.