We Didn’t Start the Fire

By Logan Taylor, Kyle Tardif, and Jason Taylor

Television 1950

• was a technological development

• Best way to spread media

• Was put in the song to show the advances in technology that we were able to do

• Without it we would not have the televisions that we have today and we would not get the news like we did today

• Fun Fact: people watch about 4 hours of TV a day

Marilyn Monroe 1950

• Social impact

• She had a relationship with Kennedy

• She was put in this on because she had a feminist impact on the war

• Her sex appeal made it more popular for today's movies and other things

• Fun Fact: changed her name to Norma to Marilyn Monroe

Joe Dimagio 1950

• He was important for the fact that he tried to turn the attention away from the war and made them like baseball

• Hade a social impact • He made the sport of baseball to become popular

and how people today like to watch it

Fun Fact: played for the Yankees with a contract of 100,000 contract 3 time MVP and all star

sugar ray 1951

• He had a social impact on the war • Some of his money went to the IRS which helped

pay for the weapons used in the Cold War • He was put in this song because he supported the

war and had a good social appeal with his boxing • He connects to today because he changed the

way boxing was looked at

• Fun Fact: was consider the best Welterweight Champion

Elvis Presley 1955

• Had a social impact • His music took some off the tension off the war and

made the people feel more fun and out going in a bad time like this he was also a pretty big anti-communist

• He was put in this song to show that he didn’t start anything and he just wanted to help them get through the tuff time

• He made music today different with the types of styles he used

• Fun Fact: he was the King of Rock and Roll

Trouble in the Suez 1956

• Suez was impacted as a military event • Was a military base that gave Britain a better

advantage over the sea trade and travel • It was but in the song for the reason of we were

not fighting just trying to help other people • It connects to today with the military statagies we

use now

• Fun Fact: its length was 100 miles width was 325 feet

Sputnik 1957

• It ushered a new political, military, and scientific development

• A satellite that was made to search other planets and it had a robot inside of it

• It was put in the song because of the technological development

• it made our space race today more than a dream but a achievement

• Fun Fact: it was the size of a basketball and 183 pounds

Space Monkey 1959

• The Space Monkey was a technological development

• Was a monkey in space • he was in the song because it was in the time for

the Space race between us and Russia • He connects to today because with out him we

would not go into space with real people

• Fun Fact: the first Space Monkey was named Gordo

Malcom X 1963

• He had a social impact

• He was a civil rights act enthusiast

• He was in the song because he was a major part in the history of whites and blacks

• Without him we would not have white and blacks schools and other things without his help

• Fun Fact: He enjoyed playing Pin Ball machines

Wheel of Fortune 1975

• It was a social Impact

• A game show where people could win some money

• It was in the song because it was a god game show back in the day during the cold war and a lot of people watched it

• With out this game show we would not have some of the new game shows that we have today

• Fun Fact: the famous wheel in the show weighs 2,400 Pounds