We Didn't Start The Fire

Harry Truman

•Truman Doctrine- The United States gave financial and

military aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent

them from falling under the rule of the Soviets. Truman also

began the containment policy.

Image: Harry S. Truman. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 12:16, Nov 23, 2013. from http://www.biography.com/people/harry-s-truman-9511121.

Doris Day

Image: Musto,M. (2010) http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2010/06/doris_day_is_no.php

Red China

•The People’s Republic of China was formed due to the Soviet Spread of Communism.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party.svg

Johnnie Ray

Image: http://www.violafair.com/music/birthjazz8.htm

South Pacific

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(musical)

Walter Winchell

Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Walter_Winchell_Kiss_of_Death_trailer_scrennshot_%283%29.jpg

Joe DiMaggio

Image: http://www.luxist.com/tag/Joe+DiMaggio/

Joe McCarthy

•Head of the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC.) He accused a wide range of people, including politicians, musicians, and actors, of contributing to the USSR regime. Image:

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/04/andrew_thomas_pledges_cooperat.php

Richard Nixon

•Member of HUAC and Vice President to Dwight D. Eisenhower. He continued Truman’s policy of containment regarding the spread of communism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Richard_Nixon

Studebaker

Image: http://lincolnrestoration.wordpress.com/other-cars/1950-studebaker/

Television

•The Cold War was the first war to be documented and broadcasted on television.

Image: http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950%20QF.htm

North Korea, South Korea

•North Korea became a Communist country in 1925. North Korea and South Korea are separated by the 38th Parallel.

Image: http://ksnvienna.com/2013/05/13/north-and-south-korea-a-students-opinion/

Marilyn Monroe

Image: http://no-pedia.com/marilyn-monroe.html

Rosenbergs

•United States citizens convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were accused of passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviets, and were executed for their crime.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

H-Bomb

•The United States, as well as the USSR, had the H-bomb in case of the even of a nuclear war.

Image: http://www.viewzone.com/hbomb.html

Sugar Ray

Image: http://sugarrayleonard.com/

Panmunjom•The village where the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. This stopped the Korean War.

Image: http://unprofessionaltranslation.blogspot.com/2010/05/panmunjom.html

Brando

Image: http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/marlon-brando/images/31136939/title/marlon-brando-wallpaper

The King and I

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I_(1956_film)

The Catcher in the Rye

Image: http://blog.cksf.org/page.cfm/scholarships/catcher-in-the-rye

Eisenhower

•Dwight D. Eisenhower continued Truman’s containment policy. He was also president during the first result of that policy, The Korean War.

Image: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_David_Eisenhower

Vaccine

Image: http://www.whale.to/v/polio2.htm

England’s Got a New Queen

Image: http://www.cardinalsolutions.biz/blog/bid/296883/Leadership-Lessons-from-a-World-Class-Leader-Queen-Elizabeth-II

Marciano

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Marciano

Liberace

Image: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/05/24/my-night-with-liberace/

Santayana, goodbye

Image: http://www.nndb.com/people/906/000086648/

CHORUS

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Joseph Stalin•Second Communist leader of the USSR. Stalin was the leader during World War II and the start of the Cold War in 1947. (See essay for details.)

Image: http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/joseph-stalin-51.php

Malenkov

•Close friend and successor of Stalin. Malenkov only held office for six months, until he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev.

Image: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19521006,00.html

Nasser

Image: http://ziomania.com/nasser/Gamal%20Abdel%20Nasser%20Photos.htm

Prokofiev

•Sergei Prokofiev was a Russian composer who publicly denounced the communist party. He was declared an enemy of the Soviet Union.

Images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev

Rockefeller (NOT JOHN)

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop_Rockefeller

Campanella

Image: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/944308-2011-mlb-mvp-power-ranking-the-50-greatest-mvp-seasons-of-all-time

Communist Bloc

•Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe.

Images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc

Roy Cohn

•Close friend of Joseph McCarthy. He was also an attorney on the prosecution team during the Rosenberg Trials.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

Juan Perón

Image: http://www.biography.com/people/juan-perón-9438004

Toscanini

Image: http://www.last.fm/music/Arturo+Toscanini

Dacron

Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dacron_Reels.jpeg

Dien Bien Phu falls•Battle between the French and the Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. This battle lasted for a month and was ended by the Geneva Accords. The city fell to the Viet Minh

Image: http://www.lpusd.k12.ca.us/rm1/online/hotpotatoestav/TAV17-1/17-1b.htm

Rock Around The Clock

Image: http://2011wedidntstartthefire.wikispaces.com/Rock+Around+the+Clock

Einstein

Image: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/09/28/140839445/is-einstein-wrong

James Dean

Image: http://www.doctormacro.com/movie%20star%20pages/Dean,%20James-Annex.htm

Brooklyn’s Got a Winning Team

Image: http://www.nsnn.com/The%20Brooklyn%20Dodgers.htm

Davy Crockett

Image: http://hollywoodmoviecostumesandprops.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html

Peter Pan

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(1954_musical)

Elvis Presley

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

Disneyland

Image: http://www.couponingtodisney.com/disneyland-training-walking-right-down-the-middle-of-main-street-usa/

Bardot

Image: http://ticklemevintage.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/brigitte-bardot/

Budapest

•The capital of Hungary. In 1954, Hungary fell to communism and many landmarks in Budapest were destroyed.

Image: http://www.americanhungarianfederation.org/1956/photos.htm

Alabama

Image: http://www.rosapark.com/rosaparks.htm

Khrushchev•The successor of Malenkov and communist leader of the USSR for nine years. He was also the leader during the start of the space race and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Image: http://www.answers.com/topic/nikita-khrushchev-large-image

Princess Grace

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Kelly

Peyton Place

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Place_(film)

Trouble in the Suez

Image: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no2/the-art-of-strategic-counterintelligence.html

CHORUS (again)

Image: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/22/todays-top-10-songs-for-jfk-slideshow/we-didn’t-start-the-fire-billy-joel/

Little Rock

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eckford

Pasternak

•Russian author of Doctor Zhivago. This novel took place in Russia between 1905 and World War II. Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature after Doctor Zhivago was banned from publication in the USSR. The fact that he won the Nobel Prize greatly angered the USSR.

Image: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/pasternak-bio.html

Mickey Mantle

Image: http://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2011/10/top-10-mickey-mantle-moments.html

Kerouac

•Author and rebel who constantly denounced communism, Catholicism and other forms of organization and conformity.

Image: http://alexdonald.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/what-happened-to-kerouac/

Sputnik

•First satellite in space happened to be a Soviet satellite. This was the first development in the space race between the US and USSR.

Image: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/satellites.php

Chou En-Lai

•Was the first leader of Communist China from 1949 until 1976. he served under Chairman Mao and was critical in controlling the rise of the Communist Party.

Image: http://www.lisasee.com/dreamsofjoy-inside/historical-links/

Bridge on the River Kwai

Image: http://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Summaries/B/Bridge%20on%20the%20River%20Kwai,%20The.htm

Lebanon

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lebanon_crisis

Charles de Gaulle

Image: http://www.answers.com/topic/charles-de-gaulle

California Baseball

Image: http://www.todayinbaseball.com/cms/0407195813-Coliseum

Starkweather Homicide

Image: http://www.biography.com/people/charles-starkweather-233080

Children of Thalidomide

Image: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/thalidomide/first.html

Buddy Holly

Image: http://www.biography.com/people/buddy-holly-9342186

Ben-Hur

Image: http://www.movieguide.org/reviews/BenHur.html

Space Monkey

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Baker

Mafia

Image: http://www.aliendvds.com/mafia.html

Hula Hoops

Image: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2049243_2048654_2049245,00.html

CastroCuban Communist leader. He allowed the Soviets to keep missiles in Cubs, which raised tensions between the US and USSR.

Image: http://www.nndb.com/people/118/000023049/

Edsel is a no-go

Image: http://www.answers.com/topic/edsel-large-image-1

U-2 (not the band)

Images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident

•A United States aircraft that was shot down while flying over the USSR, causing a major crisis during the Cold War.

Syngman Rhee

Image: http://www.nndb.com/people/451/000111118/

Payola

Image: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2009/01/do_oc_weekly_food_critics_prac.php

Kennedy

•President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the space race.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaugural_address_of_John_F._Kennedy

Chubby Checker

Image: http://www.last.fm/music/Chubby+Checker

Psycho

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)

Belgians in the Congo

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique

CHORUS (last time we promise)

Image: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/22/todays-top-10-songs-for-jfk-slideshow/we-didn’t-start-the-fire-billy-joel/

Hemingway

Image: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/18/hemingway-shoots-his-cat/

Eichmann

Image: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/eichmann.html

Stranger in a Strange Land

Image: http://rickischultz.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/swa-presenter-spotlight-charlotte-babb/

Dylan

Image: http://en.paperblog.com/no-direction-home-bob-dylan-26232/

Berlin

•The USSR refused to merge their portion of Germany. As a result, West Berlin was free and East Berlin was ruled by communism.

Image: http://americanhistory.unomaha.edu/module_display.php?mod_id=86&review=yes

Bay Of Pigs Invasion•The invasion of Cuba that was unsuccessful. It was an attempt of the United States to overthrow Castro’s reign.

Images: http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2010/10/operation-northwoods-trick-us-citizens/

Lawrence Of Arabia

Image: http://www.lawrenceofarabia.com/

British Beatlemania•While popular, the Beatles were a very controversial band. They wrote songs about the Cold War and the reign of Communism (ie, Back In The USSR, Revolution, etc.) Many also accused John Lennon of being a communist.

Image: http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=16500

Ole’ Miss

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Miss_riot_of_1962

John Glenn

Image: http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/glenn

Liston Beats Patterson

Image: http://2011wedidntstartthefire.wikispaces.com/Liston+Beats+Patterson

Pope Paul

Image: http://saints.sqpn.com/venerable-pope-paul-vi/

Malcolm X

Image: http://libcom.org/history/“ironies-saint”-malcolm-x-black-women-price-protection

British Politician Sex

Image: http://bodwyn.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/the-vision-of-a-long-ago-dreamtime/

JFK Blown Away

Image: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/03/03/UPIs-Stan-Stearns-dies-photographed-JFK-funeral/UPI-79011330790245/

CHORUS (just kidding)

Image: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/22/todays-top-10-songs-for-jfk-slideshow/we-didn’t-start-the-fire-billy-joel/

Birth Control

Image: http://merkwerk-1964-1989.blogspot.com/2009/06/birth-control-1965.html

Ho Chi Minh

•Leader of the Communist party in Vietnam. He founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the People’s Army of Vietnam, as well as the Viet Cong.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh

Richard Nixon Back Again

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Richard_Nixon

Moonshot

Image: http://inktank.fi/neil-armstrongs-most-magnificent-words-in-pictures/

Woodstock

Image: http://urban1972.com/blog/?cat=316

Watergate

Image: http://lisaleaks.com/2013/08/19/nixons-buddy-bebe-rebozo-comes-into-the-watergate-picture/

Punk Rock

Image: http://rokpool.com/content/the-ramones

Begin

Image: http://merkwerk-1964-1989.blogspot.com/2009/06/begin.html

Reagan“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”•Reagan challenged Gorbachev, the leader of the USSR. Due to his actions, the Soviet Union fell and Berlin Wall crumbled.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1984

Palestine

Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palestine_flag.jpg

Terror on the Airline

Image: http://youthandeldersja.wordpress.com/tag/orlando-bosch/

Ayatollah’s in Iran

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini

Russians In Afghanistan•A nine year war between the USSR and Afghanistan. Many Afghan people were forced to flee the country.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune

Image: http://gscentral.net/wof/1983.htm

Sally Ride

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride

Heavy Metal Suicide

Image: http://hilobrow.com/2011/12/03/ozzy-osbourne/

Foreign Debts

Image: http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jg18pae/4.1.html

Homeless Vets

•Due to economic situations, many veterans of the Vietnam War were left poor and homeless.

Image: http://feminspire.com/why-are-so-many-veterans-in-the-us-homeless/

AIDS

Image: http://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/broughttolight/tag/aids-epidemic-historical-records-project/

Crack

Image: http://www.dondubois.info/we_did_not_start_the_fire/we_didnt_start_the_fire_198/we_didnt_start_the_fire_198_5.html

Bernie Goetz

Image: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/subway-vigilante-bernie-goetz-arrested-peddling-pot-article-1.1504621

Hypodermics on the Shore

Image: http://2011wedidntstartthefire.wikispaces.com/Hypodermics+on+the+Shore

China’s Under Martial Law•To end the Tiananmen Square protests, China declared that the military could use armed forces against the students.

http://ciccib.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/today-we-remember-the-massacre-in-tiananmen-square-photos/

Rock-N-Roller Cola Wars

Image: http://rock.rapgenius.com/Billy-joel-we-didnt-start-the-fire-lyrics#note-1807077

CHORUS (seriously though this is the last time)

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THANKS BILLY!!!!!• All credit for this song goes to Billy Joel, Mick Jones, and Colombia Records (1989).

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BillyJoel_StormFront.jpg