“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• Withdrawn in 1961 due to teragenicity, and neuropathy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