The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the time when the world got closest to having nuclear war. The Soviet Union missiles were less stronger then the U.S. army. so they were desperate for military in 1962. Fidel Castro was looking for a way to prevent the attack from U.S. to Cuba. So when the Soviet Union wanted a way to defeat the U.S. the Cuba let them build missile in Cuba. Later on the U.S. found out that there were missiles hidden in there by reconnaissance photographs and prepared missiles. The U.S. got ready to lunch missile and sent agreement to remove those missiles in Cuba. The Soviet Union first sent an agreement that they will remove if the U.S promises to not invade Cuba, and later on they promised that they will remove if the U.S removes their missile in Turkey. But later on the soviet Union removes their missiles and after that the U.S promised that they wont invade Cuba. Thus the crises ended in October 28th in 1962.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

The countries in north America and Europe made up the organization called NATO. This organization was mainly formed to help the member countries to help in war. If one country get attacked then the other member countries of NATO can jump and help in war. Up until 1950, the NATO was an agreement for the U.S. to protect other countries.
Warsaw pact: This pact includes most of the countries of the Soviet Union and the satellite countries. It was created in the response of the North Atlantic Treaty. It was created in may 14th, 1955. It was also created to help the member and alliance countries. The member countries were, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. but later in 1991 the Warsaw pact was canceled.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's list"

In the movie, "Schindler's list" had lots of powerful scenes as well. This movie showed the three parts of holocaust: ghetto, concentration camp and the Auschwitz. Obviously the Auschwitz will be more powerful where all those people were first killed and then burned. But i think that the part where the Jews were taken from ghetto to the labor camp were more powerful int eh movie. It showed how who ever tried to escape were killed without any hesitation. how all those people were hiding throughout the whole day and later at night how all the German killed everyone of them. Mostly those who were in the Schindler's list survived. But we saw other people were taken into the concentration camp and later to the death camp and almost all of them never came back.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

Night and Fog was a strong documentary about the holocaust and Auschwitz. It effected us all very much and showed us the real truth, it brought the actual evidence of the holocaust that were left after the world war II was over. The movie showed us how Jews were killed and and also how all their stuff were taken away. But instead the Hollywood version shows step by step of what happened one after another and how the victims were affected. waht kind of protest they did but still couldn't escape. I think the Hollywood version was much better to see and understand because it showed step by step, but even though the documentary was very powerful, it only showed what happend after the end of war. It didn't show what happened at that moment.