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We didn’t start the fire web assignment. By: Austin Wittig and Mitch Belville. Harry Truman. 33 rd president. Created NATO In office through 1945-1953 President after Roosevelt and before Eisenhower. . Doris Day. American actress and singer Academy Award. Golden Globe Grammy - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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We didn’t start the fire web assignment
By: Austin Wittig and Mitch Belville
Harry Truman
• 33rd president.• Created NATO• In office through 1945-1953• President after Roosevelt and before
Eisenhower.
Doris Day
• American actress and singer• Academy Award.• Golden Globe• Grammy• From Cincinnati.
Red China
• Mao created a People’s Democratic Dictatorship.
• National capitol of Beijing.• Created in 1949.• To separate into 4 classes.
Johnnie Ray
• Singer during 50’s and 60’s.• Biggest hits were- “Cry” and “The Little White
Cloud That Cried”• Oregon and California.
South Pacific
• 1949 Broadway Musical.• One of the greatest Broadway musicals.• Many films were based off of it.• Won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1950.
Walter Winchell
• American newspaper and radio commentator. • Invented gossip column. • 1920’s• Read by 50 million people a day.
Joe DiMaggio
• Baseball player nicknamed ‘Joltin’ Joe.• 3-time MVP winner and 13 time All-Star.• Won 10 pennants and 9 world championships.• 1969- he was voted one of greatest living
sports players.
Joe McCarthy
• American politician who served as Republican U.S. senator.
• McCarthyism- harsh accusations of communism.
• Drank himself to death after being punished.
Richard Nixon
• Watergate Scandal.• 37th president• In office from 1969-1974.• Resigned for lying to people.• Succeeded by Gerald Ford.• Born in California.
Studebaker
• Wagon and Automobile manufacture.• Founded in 1852. stopped producing in 1967.• Their first gasoline car made in 1912.• South Bend, Indiana.
Television
• 1945 fewer than 7,000 television sets in country.
• First television broadcast in 1936 in London.• 1939- Wizard of Oz debuted on CBS.• 1948- earliest cable systems were created.
North Korea
• Aided by China and Soviet Union from 10’s-70’s.
• Dictatorship.• Korean War- 1950-1953.• Supreme Leader- Kim Jong-il.
South Korea
• Located in East Asia.• Seoul is Capitol.• Population of 10,412,782.• Government- Sixth Republic of South Korea.
Marilyn Monroe
• Model.• Born in 1926.• Been in a many films.• Made many songs.
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