The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba during the Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world's ever came to a nuclear war. This crisis ranked with the Berlin Blockade as one of the major confrontations of the Cold war and it's often regarded as the moment in which the Cold war became very very close to becoming a nuclear war.The United States challenged the Soviet Union and they want the Soviet Union to remove the missiles. President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev told the Soviet to leave the island and take their missile with them before both the USA and USSR attacked them.

This Cuban missile crisis started right after the failed bay of pigs attack. Fidel Castro the dictator of Cuba felt that there was another attack coming from the United States so he approved of the Khrushchev plan. Khrushchev wanted to avoid the war with the Western nation but yet at the same time wanted to increase economic competition between Communist and Non-Communist countries. Khrushchev's determination to keep peace paid off when he finally got the Americans to remove the missiles from Italy and Turkey and got a public pledge that stated the United States would not invade Cuba. President John F. Kennedy and his organization feared when he found out what the Soviet Union was doing in Cuba. Therefore Kennedy threatened that if any missiles were to be launched from Cuba, he would hold the Soviet Union responsible.The Cuban Missile Crisis was considered “the hottest moment in the Cold War” because it was the only war which consisted of nuclear bombs and was a war that could've destroyed the world.

"The Right Stuff"

In the movie "The Right Stuff" the US and the USSR were competing over space. The USSR was winning this competition because they were the first to send a satellite into space. The United States didn't like the idea that the USSR had already sent something out to space and we haven't. We had decided to send a man out into space but we also had in mind of sending a monkey instead. We trained i think two monkey as we were training our astronauts. We eventually decided on sending seven well trained astronauts out with no monkey and that was a success.The USSR had thought they were winning because they were the first to send a man out into space but little did they now we were planing to be the first to send a man to the moon. And so we did, the man who was the first to experience the moon was Neil Armstrong.
The scene that i remember was when they were testing the rockets out and every time they would think the rocket was gonna be a success,the rocket would turn out to be a disappointment. They tried so many times to send out a rocket and each time they would test a new rocket it would go higher into the sky then the last one did except on the last testing. On the last testing the rocket did absolutely nothing besides throw the top of the rocket off apart from the actual rocket.