Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The movie The Right Stuff talks about the Cold War. This was when the Russian and Americans were competing over the bragging rights of space. At first the Russians were in the lead and the Americans was embarrassed that the Russians were in the league, so the Americans put a lot of money into the space program. This space program was called NASA. In the movie The Right Stuff it showed the Americans searching for 7 people that they would send to space. These 7 people had to be very fit and educated. Eventually the 7 people also got mad because the Russians sent their 1st man into space. The Americans felt like they were behind. The scenes that would help me remember about the cold war would have to be the newspaper because in the movie the newspaper would keep everyone updated on whats happening. Another scene would have to be the different rockets the Americans test out because it showed how the Americans were falling behind the Russians.
Although in the movie The Right Stuff showed the Russians winning the competition of space. The Americans eventually won the competition by going to the moon. Americans were the first country to ever go to the moon.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

The NATO was formed during the Cold War. The NATO was an organization between Europe and North America. They were against the communist. The NATO were formed by The Americans, Canada and some countries from Europe. This alliance system was formed because Americans was afraid that the spread of communist would spread. Another reason why alliance system was formed to protect each other if one of the countries were attacked by communist. Their objective was to prevent the spread of communist. This NATO organization led to the war of the Vietnam which the Americans lost and it later became a communist countries. There was also another war called the Korean War, the objective of this war was to keep the communist away from South Korea. Eventually America won this war.
The Warsaw Pact later formed. This was also an alliance system. This organization was formed by the communist countries with the exception of China, Russia, Poland and Chezkalyva.. The Warsaw Pact objective was to spread communist. They formed the Warsaw Pact because they took the NATO as a threat to their objective.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

The movie Schindler's list was the Hollywood version of the holocaust. The movie was about a guy called Schindler who was in the Nazi party and he was a good guy. The Jewish people that worked for Schindler was basically safe from being killed. The movie showed the steps of what they did to the Jewish until Hilter final solution. The Nazi first started moving the Jews to the Ghetto which was a small town with about 10 Jews living in a small space. It was very brutal because they would make the Jews work and if the Nazi soldiers saw lack in the Jews, they would kill them. They later found out that they didn't like the Ghetto idea, so they move them to labor camp where the Jews would work all day and those who showed weakness was killed. Hilter then came up with the idea The Final Solution, it was basically the end of the war and Hilter just wanted to kill all the Jews and those who was on Schindler's list was safe. That was just a brief summary of what the movie was about.
The most brutal part of the money was probably the labor camp because they would killed the unhealthy Jews and also separate the kids from the parents. In the labor camp the Nazi would make them burn the dead body of the Jews to leave no evidence of what happen to the dead bodies. The image that would probably never leave my head is probably the places the Jews hid at. I think Night and Fog had more of a powerful movie because it showed real footages from the death camps.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

The movie Night and Fog was made 10 years after WWII ended and the camp of Auschwitz was closed . This movie was about a guy that did a documentation of the death camp in Auschwitz. The movie was about footages that the Nazi took and the footages showed the stuff the nazi would do to the Jewish. When I saw this movie, my reaction was just speechless because if you saw what they did to the Jews was just total annihilation of a race. They killed the Jews with almost everything you can think of like gas chambers, guns, and etc. The Nazi would also put the Jews on work and sometimes make the Jews dig their own graves.
Night and Fog and Schindlers list shared same scenes like what they did to the Jews and how it all started. The difference between these two movies was that Night and Fog was a documentation of what happen in the holocaust and Schindler's list was a Hollywood version of the holocaust. I think the movie Night and Fog explains the holocaust better because the movie had real footages from the deathcamps. They also show all the details of what they did to the Jews

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)

The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty made up by the French and the English. This treaty ended WWI, Germany went to Versailles, France and had to sign it as a loss of defeat. This treaty was totally unfair, it basically blamed Germans for everything. The treaty said the Germans caused WWI, the Germans was responsible for all the lives lost and the German was responsible for the expenses of the war. The Treaty of Versailles as you can see was a totally unfair treaty, but the Germans couldn't do anything about it because they lost the war. After WWI the Germans went through a depression and many people didn't have or lost their jobs. WWI also impacted the Americans because the Germans borrowed some money from the Americans and that led to a American depression.
In 1923 a guy called Adolf Hitler tried to overthrow the government and was sent to prison. During prison he wrote a book and that book was basically about the Germans losing the war because of the weak government Germany had. Hitler then promised he was get the people out of the depression and people believed him. They wanted a strong leader. In January 1933 Hitler and his party the Nazi took over Germany. Hitler blamed the Jews for everything, he then became a dictator. Eventually this led to WWII and historians say that it was the Treaty of Versailles that led to WWII, i agree with this because the treaty took an huge impact on Germany and that's when they needed a leader to guide them through it. That's when Hitler came in and it led to WWII

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Before Mustafa Kenmal became the president, he was a military leader. He fought for the independence of Turkey which was known as the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was a  country full of muslims before Turkey got its independence. Mustafa then became the 1st president of Turkey for 15 years. During the time he was a president of Turkey he tried to modernize the people of Turkey. He wanted the people to dress more like the Europeans and American. He wanted the people to be more secular meaning he wanted the people of Turkey to be less religious. One thing he did was he banned fez, a fez was a brimless hat that the people of Turkey wore. He also didn't want the people to wear the long dresses. He stated that he wanted the state of Turkey to have free privileges of certain stuff. He created a Secular government before he passed away.

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi was born on Oct 2,1869. Mohandos  Karamchand Gandhi an Indian philosopher who fought for the independence of India which was under the control of the British. Gandhi fought against the British using non-violence, he believed that violence will only lead to more violence and that wasn't what he wanted. He led his people to boycott the British, in other words Gandhi told his people to not buy anything from the British. He told his people to stop buying British goods and to make their own cloths. The salt march was one of the things that Gandhi did, the salt march was when Gandhi and his people would walk 10 miles a day to the sea ocean and make their own salt. This was totally illegal, the British  didn't let people make their own salt without their permission. In the end India got their Independence and Gandhi was the savior of India, but Gandhi didn't complete everything he did. He also wanted the Muslim and Hindu to get along and live together, but this never happened and now the two religions are separated. Most muslim now live in Pakistan.

Extra Credit: I think India wouldn't have won their independence from British without Gandhi because no one would have the guts to lead India and if India was to use violence against the British, the British would have won because of their technology. World War II happened when India won its Independence from the British. Another reason why the Indians won their independence from British was because British couldn't be worrying about India while fighting Hilter in WWII