In 1989, Billy Joel released his hit Grammy-nominated single, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”; a song which, by Joel’s own admission, was inspired by Sean Lennon’s (John Lennon’s son) ignorance of the recent past. This song’s lyricsare comprised a mostlychronological list of important people and events from 1949 to 1989 (40 years). It covers everything from politics, world events to even pop culture with each stanza covering roughly one year.
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This project tasks you with researching and writing a short statement about the terms in three (3) of the following listed years.Keep in mind that each listed year has a mix of people, places, events, films and songs.You can use any materials or information at your disposal to compose this exam.
Each statement should be a couple of sentences long and should explain what the term is, and why it is important.
These are the “following listed years.” Note that 1964-89 is divided into 4 separate entries.
"We didn't Start the Fire" events Lyrics by Billy Joel
1949
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
1950
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
1951
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
1952
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new Queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
1953
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
1954
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
1955
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
1956
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
1957
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai
1958
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather homicide, children ofthalidomide
1959
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia, Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
1960
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
1961
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land", Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
1962
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania , Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
1963
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex, JFK-blown away
1964-89
1.Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
2.Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline, Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
3."Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide, Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
4.Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law, Rock and roller, cola wars
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