The Cold War Billy Joel Style World History
The Cold War – Billy Joel Style World History Billy Joel sound track “We didn’t start The Fire”
The Cold War Era 1949 -1989 What really happened?
This period in history will be remembered for many events The space race n Nuclear anxiety n Cuban Missile Crisis n Fear of Communism n Iron Curtain n Korean war n Vietnam n
“It was a Cold War of words -a time when nations were rallied by stirring speeches and trembled by ominous warnings. ” WWW. CNN. COM
The following presentation is a brief but effective summary of what took place during the Cold War Era
“We Didn’t Start The Fire”
1949 n n n n Harry S. Truman Doris Day Red China Johnny Ray South Pacific Walter Winchell Joe Dimaggio
1950 n n n n Joe Mc. Carthy Richard Nixon Studebaker Television North Korea South Korea Marilynn Monroe
1951 n n n n Rosenburg H-Bomb Sugar Ray Panmunjom Brando The King and I The Catcher in the Rye
1952 n n n Eisenhower Vaccine England’s got a new Queen Marciano Liberace Santayana good-bye
Chorus We didn't start the fire It was always burning, Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire Well we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it. n
1953 n n n n Joseph Stalin Malenkov Nasser Prokofiev Rockefeller Campanella Communist Bloc
1954 n n n Roy Cohn Juan Peron Tosconini Darcon Dien Ben Phi falls Rock around the clock
1955 n n n n Einstein James Dean Brooklyn’s got a winning team Davy Crockett Peter Pan Elvis Presley Disneyland
1956 n n n n Bardot Budapest Alabama Kruschehev Princess Grace Peyton’s Place Trouble in the Suez
Chorus We didn't start the fire It was always burning, Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire Well we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it. n
1957 n n n n Little Rock Pasternok Mickey Mantle Kerouac Sputnik Chou En-Lai Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 n n n Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California Baseball Starkweather Homicide Children of the Thalidomide
1959 n n n n Buddy Holly Ben Hur Space Monkeys Mafia Hula Hoops Castro Edsel is a no go
1960 n n n n U-2 Syngman Rhee Payola Kennedy Chubby Checker Psycho Belgians in Congo
Chorus We didn't start the fire It was always burning, Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire Well we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it. n
1961 n n n Hemingway Eichmann Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan Berlin Bay of Pigs Invasion
1962 n n n Lawrence of Arabia British Beatlemania Ole Miss John Glenn Liston beats Patterson
1963 n n Pope Paul Malcolm X British Politician Sex JFK blown away
Chorus We didn't start the fire It was always burning, Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire Well we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it. n
1964 -1989 n n n Birth Control Ho Chi-Minh Richard Nixon back again Moonshot Woodstock Watergate Punk Rock Begin Reagan Palestine Terror on the airlines Ayatollahs in Iran n n n Russians in Afghanistan Wheel of Fortune Sally Ride Heavy Metal Suicide Foreign debt Homeless vets AIDS Crack Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shore China’s under Martial Law Rock and Roller Cola Wars
Who started the Fire? Music by Billy Joel “We Didn’t Start The Fire”
What does the fire swirl around?
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