1. “It was a Cold War of words -- a time when nations were rallied by stirring speeches and trembled by ominous warnings.”

2. “We Didn’t Start The Fire”

3. 1949 Harry S. Truman Doris Day Red China Johnny Ray South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe Dimaggio

4. 1950 Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon Studebaker Television North Korea
South Korea
Marilynn Monroe

5. 1951 Rosenburgs H-Bomb Sugar Ray Panmunjom Brando The King and I
The Catcher in the Rye

6. 1952 Eisenhower Vaccine England’s got a new Queen Marciano Liberace
Santayana good-bye

7. Chorus
We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning.  We didn't start the fire  Well we didn't light it,  But we tried to fight it.

8. 1953 Joseph Stalin Malenkov Nasser Prokofiev Rockefeller Campanella
Communist Bloc

9. 1954 Roy Cohn Juan Peron Tosconini Darcon Dien Ben Phi falls
Rock around the clock

10. 1955 Einstein James Dean Brooklyn’s got a winning team Davy Crockett
Peter Pan
Elvis Presley
Disneyland

11. 1956 Bardot Budapest Alabama Kruschehev Princess Grace Peyton’s Place
Trouble in the Suez

12. Chorus
We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning.  We didn't start the fire  Well we didn't light it,  But we tried to fight it.

13. 1957 Little Rock Pasternok Mickey Mantle Kerouac Sputnik Chou En-Lai
Bridge on the River Kwai

14. 1958 Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California Baseball
Starkweather Homicide
Children of the Thalidomide

15. 1959 Buddy Holly Ben Hur Space Monkeys Mafia Hula Hoops Castro
Edsel is a no go

16. 1960 U-2 Syngman Rhee Payola Kennedy Chubby Checker Psycho
Belgians in Congo

17. Chorus
We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning.  We didn't start the fire  Well we didn't light it,  But we tried to fight it.

18. 1961 Hemingway Eichmann Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan Berlin
Bay of Pigs Invasion

19. 1962 Lawrence of Arabia British Beatlemania Ole Miss John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson

20. 1963
Pope Paul
Malcolm X
British Politician Sex
JFK blown away

21. Chorus
We didn't start the fire  It was always burning,  Since the world's been turning.  We didn't start the fire  Well we didn't light it,  But we tried to fight it.

22. 1964-1989 Birth Control Ho Chi-Minh Richard Nixon back again Moonshot
Woodstock
Watergate
Punk Rock
Begin
Reagan
Palestine
Terror on the airlines
Ayatollahs in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune
Sally Ride
Heavy Metal
Suicide
Foreign debt
Homeless vets
AIDS
Crack
Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore
China’s under Martial Law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars

25. Credits
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