1. Teacher Name Class Insert Billy Joel sound track “We didn’t start
The Fire”

2. The Cold War Era 1949-1989 What really happened?

3. This period in history will be remembered for many events
The space race
Nuclear anxiety
Cuban Missile Crisis
Fear of Communism
Iron Curtain
Korean war
Vietnam

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

5. The following presentation is a brief but effective summary of what took place during the Cold War Era

6. “We Didn’t Start The Fire”

7. 1949 Harry S. Truman Doris Day Red China Johnny Ray South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe Dimaggio

8. 1950 Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon Studebaker Television North Korea
South Korea
Marilynn Monroe

9. 1951 Rosenburg H-Bomb Sugar Ray Panmunjom Brando The King and I
The Catcher in the Rye

10. 1952 Eisenhower Vaccine England’s got a new Queen Marciano Liberace
Santayana good-bye

11. 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.

12. 1953 Joseph Stalin Malenkov Nasser Prokofiev Rockefeller Campanella
Communist Bloc

13. 1954 Roy Cohn Juan Peron Tosconini Darcon Dien Ben Phi falls
Rock around the clock

14. 1955 Einstein James Dean Brooklyn’s got a winning team Davy Crockett
Peter Pan
Elvis Presley
Disneyland

15. 1956 Bardot Budapest Alabama Kruschehev Princess Grace Peyton’s Place
Trouble in the Suez

16. 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.

17. 1957 Little Rock Pasternok Mickey Mantle Kerouac Sputnik Chou En-Lai
Bridge on the River Kwai

18. 1958 Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California Baseball
Starkweather Homicide
Children of the Thalidomide

19. 1959 Buddy Holly Ben Hur Space Monkeys Mafia Hula Hoops Castro
Edsel is a no go

20. 1960 U-2 Syngman Rhee Payola Kennedy Chubby Checker Psycho
Belgians in Congo

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

23. 1962 Lawrence of Arabia British Beatlemania Ole Miss John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson

24. 1963
Pope Paul
Malcolm X
British Politician Sex
JFK blown away

25. 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.

26. 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

29. Presented by Matt Christensen
Music by Billy Joel
“We Didn’t Start The Fire”

30. Credits
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