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Other Lesson: We Didn't Start the Fire

Description:   Explanations for the people, places, and events in the lyrics of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire". Useful for politics, history, or music fans.

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Card # English English Image
1 South Pacific 1949 Rogers & Hammerstein musical
2 The King and I 1951 Rogers & Hammerstein musical
3 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 film adaptation of the 1954 novel
4 Ben-Hur 1959 film based on the Old Testament
5 U-2 1960 U-2 Incident
6 Psycho 1960 horror/suspense thriller
7 Lawrence of Arabia 1961 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence
8 Watergate 1974 political scandal involving a hotel break-in
9 Sally Ride 1st American woman in space
10 Zhou Enlai 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
11 Syngman Rhee 1st President of South Korea
12 Sputnik 1st artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
13 Space Monkeys 1st beings to return from space alive
14 Harry Truman 33rd President of the United States
15 Eisenhower 34th President of the United States
16 Richard Nixon Back Again 37th President of the United States
17 Terror on the Airline A series of aircraft hijackings
18 AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
19 Eichmann Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal
20 Malcolm X African-American rights activist
21 Einstein Albert Einstein, famous physicist
22 Marilyn Monroe American actress, singer, and model
23 John Glenn American astronaut
24 Liberace American entertainer and pianist
25 James Dean American film actor
26 Walter Winchell American radio and newspaper commentator
27 Doris Day American singer and actress
28 Johnnie Ray American singer, songwriter, and pianist
29 Chubby Checker American singer-songwriter
30 Buddy Holly American singer-songwriter in the 1950s
31 Moon Shot Apollo 11, 1st manned lunar landing
32 Palestine Area between Mediterranean and Jordan River
33 Toscanini Arturo Toscanini, conductor
34 Joe DiMaggio Baseball player for the New York Yankees
35 Mickey Mantle Baseball player for the New York Yankees
36 Dien Bien Phu Falls Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954
37 Peyton Place Best-selling novel by Grace Metalious
38 Television Black & white TVs became widespread
39 Dylan Bob Dylan, American folk singer-songwriter
40 Panmunjeom Border village in Korea
41 Pasternak Boris Pasternak, Russian author
42 Payola Bribes spent to ensure radio airtime for songs
43 Bardot Brigitte Bardot, French actress
44 Little Rock Capital of Arkansas
45 Budapest Capital of Hungary
46 Rock and Roller Cola Wars Coke and Pepsi marketing campaigns
47 Roy Cohn Conservative American lawyer
48 The Catcher in the Rye Controversial novel by J. D. Salinger
49 Crack Crack cocaine
50 Davy Crockett Disney TV series in the 1950s
51 California Baseball Dodgers and Giants transferred to California
52 Dacron Early artificial fabric
53 Hemingway Ernest Hemingway, writer
54 Rosenbergs Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
55 Bay of Pigs Invasion Failed attempt overthrow Castro
56 Woodstock Famous rock and roll festival in 1969
57 Castro Fidel Castro, leader of Communist Cuba
58 Belgians in the Congo First Republic of the Congo declared 1960
59 Edsel Is a No-Go Ford car discontinued after only 2 years
60 Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
61 Santayana Goodbye George Santayana died September 26, 1952
62 Malenkov Georgy Malenkov, Stalin's successor
63 Princess Grace Grace Kelly, actress and Princess of Monaco
64 Rock Around the Clock Hit song by Bill Haley & His Comets
65 Wheel of Fortune Hit television game show
66 H-Bomb Hydrogen bomb, a form of nuclear weapon
67 Ayatollahs in Iran Iranian Revolution of 1979
68 Kerouac Jack Kerouac, American author
69 JFK Blown Away John F. Kennedy assassination
70 Kennedy John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President
71 Vaccine Jonas Salk's polio vaccine
72 Children of Thalidomide Kids suffered birth defects caused by drug
73 North Korea, South Korea Korean War began June 25, 1950
74 Heavy Metal Suicide Lawsuits against Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, etc.
75 Joseph Stalin Leader of the Soviet Union 1924-1953
76 Lebanon Lebanon Crisis of 1958
77 Homeless Vets Many poor Vietnam veterans reported homeless
78 Brando Marlon Brando, American actor
79 Begin Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
80 Starkweather Homicides Murders committed by Charles Starkweather
81 Peter Pan Musical based on J. M. Barrie's book
82 Hypodermics on the Shore New Jersey's "Syringe Tide" 1987-1988
83 Bernie Goetz New Yorker who shot 4 robbers on a subway
84 Punk Rock New musical style
85 Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union
86 Stranger in a Strange Land Novel by Robert A. Heinlein
87 Mafia Organized crime families, also called the Mob
88 Red China People's Republic of China, founded 1949
89 Pope Paul Pope Paul VI
90 Studebaker Popular American car company
91 Hula Hoops Popular toy fad
92 Juan Perón President of Argentina, married to Evita Perón
93 Ho Chi Minh President of Vietnam 1945-1969
94 Charles de Gaulle President of the French Republic
95 England's Got a New Queen Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
96 Marciano Rocky Marciano, American boxer
97 Reagan Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President
98 Campanella Roy Campanella, baseball player
99 Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer
100 Alabama Site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
101 Liston Beats Patterson Sonny Liston boxes against Floyd Patterson
102 Russians in Afghanistan Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
103 Communist bloc Soviet-dominated countries in Eastern Europe
104 Trouble in the Suez Suez Crisis, Arab-Israeli conflict 1956-1957
105 Sugar Ray Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer
106 British Beatlemania The Beatles gained popularity in the 1960s
107 Berlin The Berlin Wall, built 1961
108 Brooklyn's Got a Winning Team The Brooklyn Dodgers
109 Elvis Presley The King of Rock and Roll
110 Birth Control The Pill
111 British Politician S ex The Profumo Affair
112 China's Under Martial Law Tiananmen Square protests
113 Richard Nixon U.S. Senator from California 1950-1953
114 Joe McCarthy U.S. Senator from Wisconsin 1947-1957
115 Foreign Debts U.S. trade deficits
116 Ole Miss University of Mississippi
117 Disneyland Walt Disney's first theme park
118 Rockefeller Winthrop Rockefeller

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