Sunday, April 19, 2009

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO is shorten for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is a military alliance that included nations from North America and Europe. If one of the nations was attacked, the other nations were to help them as aides. The countries that are in NATO agreed that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all. The agreement aslso helped them economically, by following the Marshall Plan. After the communisims failed, NATO was transformed from a military force to a political one.
The Warsaw Pact included communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. It was an organization, just like NATO, but it was Soviet's Union response to NATO. The soviet Union dominated the Warsaw Pact. It was a communist military alliance to maintain power in Europe. The Warsaw Pact were far superior to those of NATO, their technology soon fell far behind. After many democratic revolutions within the Warsaw Pact it was labeled "nonexistent" in 1991.
Both of these organizations were formed to build strong alliances and use their military and political foreces. NATO was formed to prevent the spread of communisim while the Warsaw Pact wanted to spread and encourage communism throughout other countries.

Schindler's List

The ghettos, actors, and concentration camps, all seemed very realistic in the film "Schinlder's List." All the scenes in the film were disturbing and crazy. There was this one scene in the film were the little kids were taken away to be killed and their mothers were suffering and couldn't do anything to stopped the Nazis.. When a mother did try to stop them, they were thrown to the ground treated like garbage. Most children were killed while other were able to hide in the camps.
The Jews were moved around to a lot of places and kept on suffering. Auschwitz was one of the most powerful concentration camps during the Holocaust. Most of the executions were held in Auschwitz. Parents, children, and the elderly, were being killed in the most scarriest creative ways ever. Some of the Jews were fooled by thinking they were jumping into showers to wash while running acid was falling on them. The scenes in the movie were disturbing and defitnitley showed the effect the concentration camps had on the Jews.