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Harry Truman
became president when Roosevelt died -
Doris Day
At 16 toured with Les Brown band -
Red China
Communists control China after struggles before WW2 -
Johnnie Ray
Part deaf singer -
South Pacific
Popular musical and movie -
Walter Winchell
Top gossip reporter -
Joe DiMaggio
Popular baseball player on Yankees (dead) -
Joe McCarthy
Wisconsin senator -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was a member of the House of Representatives from California -
Studebaker
A popular car from 1950s -
Television
Became popular in 1940s and 1950s -
North/South
Korea was split into North/South after World War II -
Marylin Monroe
Well known movie actress -
H-bomb
Hydrogen bomb -
Rosenberg's
Husband and wife who got arrested -
Sugar Ray
Rockstar band -
Panmunjom
Trades between United Nations -
Brando
Top movie actor -
The King and I
Popular Broadway play -
The Catcher in the Rye
Very popular book for teens -
Eisenhower
Supreme commander in WW2 -
Vaccine
Vaccine for polio -
England's got a new Queen
Queen Elizabeth becomes queen of England -
Marciano
Heavyweight boxing champion of world -
Liberace
Well-known pianist/entertainer -
Santyana say goodbye
Santyana dies -
Campanella
All-star catcher for Brooklyn Dodgers -
Joseph Stalin
Dictator of Soviet Union -
Malenkov
Soviet politician and communist party leader -
Nasser
Second president of Egypt -
Prokofiev
Most prolific Russian composer -
Rockefeller
Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller were grandsons of John D. Rockefeller -
Communist bloc
USSR and others formed Communist Bloc -
Roy Cohn
Advisor to Joseph McArthur -
Juan Perón
Leader in Argentina -
Toscanini
a world-famous conductor -
Toscanini
a world-famous conductor -
Dacron
Dacron hit market -
Dien Bien Phu falls
French lost control of Inda-China -
Rock Around the Clock
The first rock and roll hit song -
Elvis Presley
A Singer -
Einstein
Developed Theory of Relativity -
James Dean
Movie star -
Brooklyn's got a winning team
won the World Series -
Davy Crockett
Popular T.V. series -
Peter Pan
Broadway play -
Disneyland
A theme park -
Alabama
Rosa parks refused to give seat on bus -
Bardot
French movie star -
Budapest
Anti-communist riots -
Khrushchev
Became leader of Soviet Union -
Princess Grace
Married a prince -
Peyton Place
1 best seller book -
Trouble in the Suez
Britain and USA stopped giving money to dam project in Egypt -
Little Rock
Black people stopped from entering a school -
Pasternak
Russian poet and writer -
Mickey Mantle
Great baseball player who used to play for Yankees -
Kerouac
Author of best selling book, On the Road -
Sputnik
Name of USSR satellite -
Chou En-Lai
was the Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China -
Bridge on the River Kwai
Movie about WW2 Japenese prison camp -
Lebanon
Eisenhower ordered marines to Lebanon -
Charles de Gaulle
Became leader of France again -
California baseball
Dodgers go to LA, Giants go to San Francisco -
Starkweather homicide
Serial killer -
Children of Thalidomide
children were born with missing limbs because of a pill -
Buddy Holly
Leader of Crickets rock group -
Ben Hur
Movie starting Charlton Heston -
Space Monkey
Monkeys sent to space in rockets -
Mafia
Leaders met in NY to get organized -
Hula Hoops
Hula Hoops get popular -
Castro
Protesting influence of US in Cuba -
Edsel is a no-go
Edsel car is barely sold -
U-2
US planes going over Soviet Union -
Syngman Rhee
first Korean president -
Payola
disk jockeys were taking bribes -
Kennedy
Became president in 1960 -
Chubby Checker
Came out with song Twist -
Psycho
Movie directed my Alfred Hitchcock -
Belgians in the Congo
Independence form Belgium gained -
Birth Control
Babies started missing limbs because of a birth control pill -
Richard Nixon back again
President JFK loses election -
Hemingway
Suicide by Ernest Hemingway. -
Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann arrested and executed -
Stranger in a Strange Land
Award-winning book -
Dylan
Bob Dylan led folk music craze -
Berlin
soviets destroyed German wall -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
plan to overthrow Fidel Castro -
Lawrence of Arabia
This movie won Academy Awards -
British Beatle-mania
Beatles become music craze -
Ole Miss
This college admitted first black student -
John Glenn
first American to orbit Earth -
Liston beats Patterson
Sonny Liston beats very good boxer -
Pope Paul
Pope Paul was leader of Catholic churches -
Malcolm X
was preaching about separation of races -
British politician sex
John Profumo had sex scandal -
JFK blown away
JFK got assassinated -
Ho Chi-Minh
Ho Chi-Minh was the leader of the Communist North Vietnamese, who first fought the French and then the Americans. -
Moon shot
First person lands on moon from USA -
woodstock
Farming land was used for a rock concert -
Heavy metal, suicide
Heavy metal, type of music, suicide -
Homeless Vets
Vets became homeless -
Watergate
Nixon supporters/staff accused of doing dirty tricks -
Punk Rock
Punk rock becomes famous -
Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune TV show -
Foreign debts
Inflation caused by foreign debts -
Terror on the airlines
numerous airline hijackings reported in the news -
Begin
Begin was Prime Minister of Israel. -
Ayatollah's in Iran
Shah of Iran, which was supported by U.S.A gets overthrown -
Russians in Afghanistan
Soviet Union entered Afghanistan to "protect" communist idea -
Reagan
Ronald Reagan, former movie star becomes president -
AIDS
(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) a disease -
Bernie Goetz
New Yorker concerned about crime in city -
Sally ride
Was a women who went to space -
Crack
Form of cocaine -
Palestine
Palestinians protested against Israelis -
Hypodermics on the shore
Hypodermics got wasted incorrectly, end up on shore -
Rock and Roller Cola Wars
These 2 brands basically become rivals -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union falls -
Official end of the Cold War
cold war ends -
World Trade Center bombed
World Trade Center bombed in garage -
O.J Simpson Found not guilty of double murder
Simpson isn't convicted of double murder -
Scientists Clone Sheep
Scientists find way to clone sheep -
Wikipedia launched
Wikipedia gets launched -
YouTube launched
YouTube started -
New president
Obama was sworn in as president -
Huge Population
Africa's population hits 1 billion -
Tower in Dubai
Dubai tower opens -
Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden dies -
Theater shootings
Shootings happen at Aurora theater -
Costa Concordia Shipwreck
Cruise ship collapses -
New Pope
Pope Francis elected -
Flight dissapears
Malaysia flight 370 dissapears
