WORLD HISTORY

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WORLD HISTORY

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The Cold War Era 1949-1989What really
happened?
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This period in history will be remembered for
many events

• The space race
• Nuclear anxiety
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Fear of Communism
• Iron Curtain
• Korean war
• Vietnam

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It was a Cold War of words -- a time when
nations were rallied by stirring speeches and
trembled by ominous warnings. WWW.CNN.COM
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The following presentation is a brief but
effective summary of what took place during the
Cold War Era
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• We Didnt Start The Fire

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1949

• Harry S. Truman
• Doris Day
• Red China
• Johnny Ray
• South Pacific
• Walter Winchell
• Joe Dimaggio

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1950

• Joe McCarthy
• Richard Nixon
• Studebaker
• Television
• North Korea
• South Korea
• Marilynn Monroe

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1951

• Rosenburg
• H-Bomb
• Sugar Ray
• Panmunjom
• Brando
• The King and I
• The Catcher in the Rye

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1952

• Eisenhower
• Vaccine
• Englands got a new Queen
• Marciano
• Liberace
• Santayana good-bye

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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.

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1953

• Joseph Stalin
• Malenkov
• Nasser
• Prokofiev
• Rockefeller
• Campanella
• Communist Bloc

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1954

• Roy Cohn
• Juan Peron
• Tosconini
• Darcon
• Dien Ben Phi falls
• Rock around the clock

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1955

• Einstein
• James Dean
• Brooklyns got a winning team
• Davy Crockett
• Peter Pan
• Elvis Presley
• Disneyland

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1956

• Bardot
• Budapest
• Alabama
• Kruschehev
• Princess Grace
• Peytons Place
• Trouble in the Suez

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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.

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1957

• Little Rock
• Pasternok
• Mickey Mantle
• Kerouac
• Sputnik
• Chou En-Lai
• Bridge on the River Kwai

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1958

• Lebanon
• Charles de Gaulle
• California Baseball
• Starkweather Homicide
• Children of the Thalidomide

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1959

• Buddy Holly
• Ben Hur
• Space Monkeys
• Mafia
• Hula Hoops
• Castro
• Edsel is a no go

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1960

• U-2
• Syngman Rhee
• Payola
• Kennedy
• Chubby Checker
• Psycho
• Belgians in Congo

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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.

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1961

• Hemingway
• Eichmann
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Dylan
• Berlin
• Bay of Pigs Invasion

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1962

• Lawrence of Arabia
• British Beatlemania
• Ole Miss
• John Glenn
• Liston beats Patterson

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1963

• Pope Paul
• Malcolm X
• British Politician Sex
• JFK blown away

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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.

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1964-1989

• Birth Control
• Ho Chi-Minh
• Richard Nixon back again
• Moonshot
• Woodstock
• Watergate
• Punk Rock
• Begin
• Reagan
• Palestine
• Terror on the airlines
• Ayatollahs in Iran

• Russians in Afghanistan
• Wheel of Fortune
• Sally Ride
• Heavy Metal
• Suicide
• Foreign debt
• Homeless vets
• AIDS
• Crack
• Bernie Goetz
• Hypodermics on the shore
• Chinas under Martial Law
• Rock and Roller Cola Wars

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• Music by Billy Joel
• We Didnt Start The Fire

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