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.