“We didn’t start the Fire”

Alex Gormley & Charles Sidiodti5/12/2011

http://youtu.be/m50p-XScreM

Little Rock

• The desegregation of public schools • began with a public school in Little Rock,

Arkansas• 9 colored students went to the school• Day one they were turned away; violently• Day two went to school with an armed guard

Pasternak

• Russian poet• Mysteriously murdered• Lived in america

Mickey Mantle

• New York Yankee’s baseball player• Won 3 american league mvp titles• Won 7 world serieswon triple crown

Kerouac

• Author• Wrote: “The Dharma Bums” , “The

Subterranean”, “Big Sur”, and “Desolation Angels”

Sputnik

• Russian satellite• It was feared that it was a spying satellite

during the cold war• Never proven nor disproven.

Chou En-Lai

• October 1st 1949 the peoples republic of china was formally established with the national capital as Beijing

• 1950 national recognition of the communist government had increased considerably but was slowed by involvement in Korean war

“Bridge on the River Kwai”

• Movie in 1957 about British POW and their Japanese jailers who are forcing them to build a bridge, however unaware that the allies plan to destroy it .

Lebanon

• Country of Lebanon formed in the time period of the 1950s

• Created due to the wars in the area of Syria

Charles de Gaulle

• Political figure of France, during and after WWII

• Career was of a soldier in French army was captured

• He escaped and broadcasted to the French to resist

California Baseball

• Jackie Robinson debuted on the dodgers on April 15th, 1947

• April 15th 2004 marked beginning of annual tradition, of Jackie Robinson day

• Due to it was his first day playing

Starkweather, homicide

• Went on a murder spree that terrified the country

• Was only nineteen, and did it to bust his jailed girlfriend out.

• Multiple movies were made from his deeds

thalidomide

• Was introduced as a sedative drug in the late 1950s

• Withdrawn in 1961 due to teragenicity, and neuropathy

• Caused birth defects, and named one of the tragedies of modern times