1. “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
Billy Joel condenses the Cold War
in under five minutes
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” 1

2. (1949-1989 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 2

3. Billy Joel
Joel explained that he wrote this song due to his interest in history. He commented that he would have wanted to be a history teacher had he not become a rock and roll singer. 3

4. 1949 Harry S. Truman Doris Day Red China Johnny Ray South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe Dimaggio 4

5. 1950 1950 Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon Studebaker Television North Korea
South Korea
Marilynn Monroe 5

6. 1951 Rosenburg H-Bomb Sugar Ray Panmunjom Brando The King and I
The Catcher in the Rye 6

7. 1952 Eisenhower Vaccine England’s got a new Queen Marciano Liberace
Santayana good-bye 7

8. 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

9. 1953 Joseph Stalin Malenkov Nasser Prokofiev Rockefeller Campanella
Communist Bloc 9

10. 1954 Roy Cohn Juan Peron Tosconini Darcon Dien Ben Phi falls
Rock around the clock 10

11. 1955 Einstein James Dean Brooklyn’s got a winning team Davy Crockett
Peter Pan
Elvis Presley
Disneyland 11

12. 1956 Bardot Budapest Alabama Kruschehev Princess Grace Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez 12

13. 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

14. 1957 Little Rock Pasternok Mickey Mantle Kerouac Sputnik Chou En-Lai
Bridge on the
River Kwai 14

15. 1958 Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California Baseball
Starkweather Homicide
Children of the Thalidomide 15

16. 1959 Buddy Holly Ben Hur Space Monkeys Mafia Hula Hoops Castro
Edsel is a no go 16

17. 1960 U-2 Syngman Rhee Payola Kennedy Chubby Checker Psycho
Belgians in Congo 17

18. 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

19. 1961 Hemingway Eichmann Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan Berlin
Bay of Pigs Invasion 19

20. 1962 Lawrence of Arabia British Beatlemania Ole Miss John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson 20

21. 1963
Pope Paul
Malcolm X
British Politician Sex
JFK blown away 21

22. 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

23. 1964-1989 Birth Control Ho Chi-Minh Richard Nixon back again Moonshot
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
Birth Control
Ho Chi-Minh
Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot
Woodstock
Watergate
Punk Rock
Menachem Begin
Reagan
Palestine
Terror on the airlines
Ayatollahs in Iran 23

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26. Guiding Purpose
Learning Target: We will introduce the tensions in the post WWII era.
Closing Task: I will describe the division in Europe after World War II.
Preassessment Questions Covered: 11, 31

28. Vocabulary
4. Iron Curtain - term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in Western Europe during the Cold War.

29. Differing U.S. & Soviet Goals
Despite the agreement at Yalta and presence on the Security Council of the UN, the Soviet Union and United States split after the war
The war had affected each country differently
The U.S. suffered less deaths, and maintained their status as the richest and most powerful country in the world
The damage the Soviet Union faced was almost unbearable
Most Soviet cities were demolished, they had 50 times more casualties, and their economy destroyed
These contrasting situations, as well as political and economic differences, impacted the two countries’ postwar goals

31. Idealized Communism
“An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people
land, factories, railroads, and businesses private property does not exist
all goods and services are to be shared equally
No social classes

32. Communism Envisioned by Marx Everyone is EQUAL Peasants Communists
Military leaders
Business managers

33. Soviet Union Communism
Totalitarianism- form of government in which the national government takes control of all aspects of both public and private life
There still are social classes

34. How was the idea of communism different from reality?
QUIZ WIZ
How was the idea of communism different from reality?
Although there weren’t supposed to be classes, there were in the Soviet system.
People are supposed to be in power, but in reality they were oppressed.

35. The United States of America
America is a democracy that has:
a capitalist economic system
free elections
competing political parties

36. Capitalism “One million dollars!”
“An economic system in which money is invested with the goal of making more money (profit).”
“One million dollars!”

37. Capitalism vs. Communism
What do I wanna
be, when I grow up?

38. The choice is
not yours

39. Capitalism vs. Communism

40. Capitalism vs. Communism

41. QUIZ WIZ
What is the difference between the U.S.S.R.’s Totalitarian Communism and the U.S. Capitalist Democracy?
U.S.S.R.-Totalitarianism: Government controls all aspects of private and public life
Communism: An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people land, factories, railroads, and businesses private property does not exist
U.S.- Democracy: Free elections, competing political parities, freedoms
Capitalism: investment of money into business to make a profit

42. Let the
Cold War
Competition
Begin!

43. Had been attacked by Poland, Sweden, France (Napoleon), and Germany
Soviets Build a Buffer
A major goal of the Soviet Union was to shield itself from another invasion from the west
Throughout history they feared invasion because they lacked natural western borders
Had been attacked by Poland, Sweden, France (Napoleon), and Germany

44. Satellite Nations
Stalin installed “satellite” communist governments in the Eastern European countries of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and East Germany after WWII
Justified taking over Eastern Europe as a buffer against German aggression
This after promising “free elections” for Eastern Europe at the Yalta Conference (So… he lied)
The Soviet Union suffered an estimated 25 million WWII deaths, half of whom were civilian
As a result they felt justified in their claim to Eastern Europe
Furthermore, they felt they needed Eastern Europe as a buffer against future German aggression
In a 1946 speech, Stalin said communism and capitalism
were incompatible – and another war was inevitable

45. Potsdam Conference
Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met in Potsdam, Germany in July 1945
President Truman expressed Stalin’s reluctance to allow free elections in satellite nations was a clear violation of those countries’ rights
Truman continued to press Stalin to permit free elections in Eastern Europe
Stalin refused and declared that “communism and capitalism could not exist in the same world.”

46. What promise did Stalin break in Eastern Europe?
QUIZ WIZ
What promise did Stalin break in Eastern Europe?
He promised to hold free, democratic elections but instead appointed communist leaders

47. The Iron Curtain
Europe was now divided into two political regions; a mostly democratic Western Europe and a communist Eastern Europe
Germany was also split into two sections
Soviets controlled Eastern Germany, including half of the capital, Berlin while the other half was free
The phrase “iron curtain” came to stand for the division of Europe
(Churchill Speech)

48. Churchill’s iron curtain speech
P R I M A RY SO U R C E
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across
the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and
Eastern Europe All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in the
Soviet sphere and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence
but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, “Iron Curtain”
speech, March 5, 1946

49. No physical barrier was created that separated the continent
The Iron Curtain
No physical barrier was created that separated the continent
Term Iron Curtain was just a symbolic divide between Communist and Non-Communist countries

50. Map Activity Page 532 in your book
Label all and color all communist countries in 1948
Label and color all non communist countries
MARK the “Iron Curtain”
Color code your map and label in the Key Box

53. Guiding Purpose
Learning Target: We will introduce the tensions in the post WWII era.
Closing Task: I will describe the division in Europe after World War II.
Preassessment Questions Covered: 11, 31