Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The movie "The Right Stuff" is about the Cold War. Specifically the space race. Russia and the United States of America were fighting for control of outer space. It started when America broke the sound barrier. Then Russia sent a satellite. America and Russia then were both trying to get life up outer space. America technically did the first life in outer space. But it was a monkey. When Russia sent up a live human a couple of weeks later, America was ashamed. America got revenge a little later by sending the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. 

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey.

After the fall of the Ottaman Empire Mustafa Kemal wanted to make Turkey a modernized Muslim country. He wanted the Turkish people to be considered civilized among their European neighbors. His main focus was on how the people dressed. He got rid of the Fez (A commonly warn red headpeice) and made everyone wear hats. He also wanted the Turkish people to wear pants, shirt, ties and women stopped wearing  veils. He also got rid of the Islamic calendar and replaced it  with the western calendar. 

The Russian Revolution

Shortly after the start of WWI, Russia revolted against their czar. They had just entered WWI and were being destroyed by the Germans, They lost almost 5,000,000 men by 1916. They were short on both food and weaponry. They were also still a big farming country. There weaponry was no match for german machine guns. A man named Vladimier Lenin lead the Boshevik, or communist part to overthrough czar Nicholas II to take Russia out of the world war. They gave up a small chunk of land to german to do so though. The Boshevik had a motto 'Peace Land and Bread" which meant they wanted out of WWI they wanted land for farming and they wanted bread to eat.

Causes for WWI

WWI was the result of many nations trying to be the top. Germany, Russia, Great Britian, France and Austria-Hungary all built up their military trying to have the biggest and best military around. Germany also tried to become the top industrial country in the world. In the middle of all of this. A serbian guy assassinated the leader of Austria-Hungary and Germany tried to force their way through The Netharlands an ally of Great Britian. Austria then proceded to invade Serbia, a close ally of Russia. Russia then declared war on Germany and Britian and France were soon to follow.