Film lesson The Right Stuff

In the film "The right stuff" USSR and US were in a Space race! The space race was to see who can get a man in space first. At first the US was winning because We were the first to break the sound barrier. The reason why we entered this race was because the Russians had the first satellite to orbit the earth. So we got upset And decided to send someone up into space, like a test pilot, but publicist thought it would be bad to send a test pilot because they would have to ensure their safety and return! So in 1961 after many test runs of launching the space ship, and various tests for the pilots, We decided to send a monkey. So two weeks later after our sucsessful launch Russia sent a man in space named Yuri Gugarin a Russian. So we had a bad start but later on we won.

NATO and Warsaw Pact

Basically the NATO was an alliance of different states with the purpose to defend each other in case that a fellow state is under attack by the Soviet Union or "Warsaw pact". The countries that were in the NATO were the USA, UK, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain,Canada, and 21 other countries. Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact for the same reason US established NATO, but they were more dangerous than NATO. The Alliance of Eastern European Communist states that gave the USSR the advantage because of "Satellite States." The members were East Germany, Poland,Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania.