13 Days

Throughout this year of U.S. History, the class has made me think much more about what we learn about. We have been given situations of our modern time such as global warming, which are very difficult situations, making hard decisions, something that many in the past have had to make. Those past decisions being things such as the cuban missile crisis as portrayed by the movie 13 Days in which the governments of the U.S. and Russia were put in a situation unlike any that had ever occurred at that time. Having nothing to refer to makes everything way more difficult as you have no idea what expectations to have or standards to set. Knowing about what the people were put in helps me understand why they did what they did, and why the issues that are seen today as resolvable were so difficult to solve at the time.