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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Harry Truman (1949) | US president in 1949, authorized dropping of atomic bombs on HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI |
| Doris Day | |
| Red China | |
| Johnnie Ray | |
| South Pacific | |
| Walter Winchell (1949) | |
| Joe DiMaggio | |
| Joe McCarthy (1950) | senator of WISCONSIN 1947 - 57. this is when he made accusations of communists in the state department. contributed to the RED SCARE (communists) & LAVENDER SCARE (homosexuals) in us govt |
| Richard Nixon | |
| Studebaker | |
| television | |
| North Korea & South Korea | |
| Marilyn Monroe | |
| Rosenbergs (1953) | american communist SPIES, sentenced to death in the 1950s for givin soviet union ATOMIC secrets |
| H-Bomb | |
| Sugar Ray | |
| Panmunjom (1953) | location of the signing of the KOREAN ARMISTICE AGREEMENT, ending/pausing the KOREAN WAR |
| Marlon Brando | |
| "The King and I" | |
| "Catcher in the Rye" (1951) | novel by J. D. SALINGER, protagonist HOLDEN CAULFIELD. MODERNIST movement |
| Eisenhower | |
| vaccine (1955) | POLIO vaccine made by jonas SALK |
| England's got a new queen (1952) | |
| Marciano | |
| Liberace (1959) | LIBERACE VS DAILY MIRROR: pianist liberace sues daily mirror journalist CONNOR for libel (the latter made article hinting he was gay). this was in the UK, where homosexuality was illegal |
| Santayana goodbye (1952) | author GEORGE SANTAYANA dies. sad </3 |
| Stalin (1953) | he died on his bedroom floor of CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE |
| Malenkov (1953 - 55) | soviet leader, briefly succeeded STALIN after his death |
| Nasser (1956 - 1970) | 2nd president of EGYPT. nationalized the SUEZ CANAL COMPANY. resigned after SIX-DAY WAR with israel but joined again. big socialism & pan arabism guy etc etc |
| Profokiev | |
| Rockefeller | |
| Campanella | |
| Communist Bloc | |
| Roy Cohn | |
| Juan Perón (1955) | president of ARGENTINA 1946-1955, when he was overthrown by a coup (bc of catholic church stuff or something?? come back to this) |
| Tascanini | |
| Dacron | |
| Điện Biên Phủ falls (1954) | conflict during FIRST INDOCHINA WAR. communist fighters (VIỆT MINH) fought french colonial govt (INDOCHINA forces). war ended shortly afterward during same year |
| "Rock Around the Clock" | |
| Einstein | |
| James Dean | |
| Brooklyn's got a winning team (1955) | |
| Davy Crockett | |
| Peter Pan | |
| Elvis Presley | |
| Disneyland | |
| Bardot | |
| Budapest (1956) | |
| Alabama | |
| Kruschev | |
| Princess Grace | |
| Peyton Place | |
| trouble in the Suez (1956) | (the SECOND ISRAELI WAR, TRIPARTITE AGGRESSION, or SINAI WAR). EGYPT blockaded the canal, so ISRAEL, FRANCE, & BRITAIN invaded it |
| Little Rock | |
| Pasternak | author of DR ZHIVAGO |
| Mickey Mantle | |
| Kerouac | author of "ON THE ROAD", "MEXICO CITY BLUES", and "DHARMA BLUES". part of the BEATNIK generation i'm pretty sure |
| Sputnik (1957) | became the first artificial earth satellite. made as part of the soviet space program |
| Chou En-Lai | |
| "Bridge on the River Kwai" | |
| Lebanon | |
| Charles de Gaulle (1959 - 69) | former WW2 general & president of FRANCE. |
| California baseball | |
| Starkweather homicide | |
| children of thalidomide | medication for pregnant women that caused birth defects in babies. prevented from entering market by FRANCES OLDHAM-KELSEY, fda worker |
| Buddy Holly (1959) | died in a PLANE CRASH while touring. on their way to MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA. became known as THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED after the song AMERICAN PIE |
| Ben Hur | |
| space monkey | |
| mafia | |
| hula hoops | |
| Castro | |
| Edsel is a no-go (1959) | |
| U2 | |
| Syngman Rhee (1956) | 1st president of SOUTH KOREA. right-leaning. 1956 was his reelection |
| payola | |
| Kennedy | |
| Chubby Checker (1960) | american dancer. popularized the TWIST in 1960 |
| Psycho | |
| Belgians in the Congo (1960) | |
| Hemingway | wrote "The Sun Also Rises", The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, The Short Happy Life of Francis Maycomber |
| Eichmann | |
| "Stranger in a Strange Land" | work by ROBERT HEINLEIN. guy born on MARS (named MICHAEL) goes to earth & has telekinetic powers (GROKKING), also there's sex cult stuff |
| Dylan | |
| Berlin | |
| Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) | failed invasion on CASTRO's cuba by CUBAN DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY FRONT (CDRF), exiles funded by US govt |
| "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) | film depicting a british guy interactiing with OTTOMAN EMPIRE in the early 20th century |
| British Beatlemania (1962) | |
| Ole Miss | |
| John Glenn | |
| Liston beats Patterson | |
| Pope Paul | |
| Malcolm X | very radical black civil rights leader. member of NATION OF ISLAM. his views shifted during his pilgrimage to MECCA in 1964, assassinated by 2 NOI members in 1965 |
| British politician sex | |
| JFK blown away | |
| Birth control | |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of communist NORTH VIETNAM |
| Richard Nixon back again (1968) | nixon won the 1968 election, serving 2 consecutive terms |
| Moonshot | |
| Woodstock | |
| Watergate (1972 - 74) | scandal involving NIXON bugging democrats & more, 5 men were seen breaking into watergate complex. BOB WOODWARD & anonymous informant DEEP THROAT gained information on him. lead to his resignation in 1974 |
| punk rock | |
| Begin | |
| Reagan | |
| Palestine | |
| terror on the airline | |
| Ayatollah in Iran (1979) | ayatollah khomeini overthrew MOHAMMED RENA SHAH bc of |
| Russians in Afghanistan (1979) | SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR: |
| "Wheel of Fortune" | |
| Sally Ride | |
| heavy metal suicide | |
| foreign debts | |
| homeless vets | |
| AIDS | |
| crack | |
| Bernie Goetz (1984) | guy from NEW YORK CITY who shot 4 young black guys on the subway after one of them asked him for $5. became known as the SUBWAY VIGILANTE. was acquitted from manslaughter charges afterwards |
| hypodermics on the shore (1987 - 88) | (aka SYRINGE TIDE) medical waste began washing up on JERSEY SHORE, NYC, and LONG ISLAND. eventually traced beck to FRESH KILLS LANDFILL on STATEN ISLAND |
| China under martial law (1989) | martial law imposed on BEIJING following TIANMEN SQUARE protests |
| Rock and roll | |
| Cola wars (1980s - present) | marketing rivalry between COKE and PEPSI. thats it |
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