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  • Doris Day

    Doris Day
    Actress
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    Harry Truman

    President
  • Johnny Ray

    Johnny Ray
    Singer
  • Red China

    Red China
    Chinese Communist
  • South Pacific

    South Pacific
    Musical
  • Walter Winchell

    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator
  • Joe DiMaggio

    Joe DiMaggio
    Major League Baseball player
  • Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe
    Actress
  • Joesph McCarthy

    Joesph McCarthy
    U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
  • Richard NIxon

    Richard NIxon
    37th U.S. President
  • Studebaker

    Studebaker
    American wagon and automobile
  • Televison

    Televison
    Moving images
  • North Korean

    North Korean
    North Korean invaded South Korea
  • South Korea

    South Korea
    38th parallel
  • Rosenbergs

    Rosenbergs
    spies
  • H-bomb

    H-bomb
    Hydrogen Bomb
  • Sugar Ray

    Sugar Ray
    Former middleweight champion
  • Panmunjom

    Panmunjom
    armistice area bordering North and South Korea where forces from the United States
  • The King and I

    The King and I
    The King and I is a musical, the fifth by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II.
  • The Catcher in the Rye

    The Catcher in the Rye
    novel by J. D. Salinger. A controversial novel originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation.
  • New England has a new Queen

    New England has a new Queen
    Queen Elizabeth II
  • Santayana

    Santayana
    , was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
  • Eisenhower

    Eisenhower
    Presidential election
  • Vaccine

    Vaccine
    Polio Vaccine
  • Marciano

    Marciano
    the world heavyweight championship. Marciano defended his title six times.
  • Liberace

    Liberace
    syndicated television program,
  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin
    Leader of the Societ Union
  • Malenkov

    Malenkov
    Soviet politician and communist party leader
  • Nasser

    Nasser
    President of Egypt after Muhammad Naguib
  • Prokofiev

    Prokofiev
    the most prolific Russian composer, pianist and conductor of the twentieth century.
  • Rockefeller

    Rockefeller
    Governor of New York
  • Campanella

    Campanella
    All star catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers
  • Communist Bloc

    Communist Bloc
    USSR and their satellite countries
  • Roy Cohn

    Roy Cohn
    Advisor to Senator Joseph McCarthy
  • Juan Peron

    Juan Peron
    Popular leader in Argentina
  • Toscanini

    Toscanini
    World famous conductor
  • Dacron

    Dacron
    Wonder material
  • Dien Bien Phu falls

    Dien Bien Phu falls
    The French lose control
  • Rock around the Clock

    Rock around the Clock
    First Rock and Roll song
  • Disneyland

    Disneyland
    Theme Park
  • Einstein

    Einstein
    Theory of Relativity
  • James Dean

    James Dean
    Movie star
  • Brooklyn's got a winning team

    Brooklyn's got a winning team
    Won the world series
  • Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett
    Popular tv series
  • Peter Pan

    Peter Pan
    Broadway play
  • Elvis Presley

    Elvis Presley
    Singer
  • Bardot

    Bardot
    Movie Star
  • Budapest

    Budapest
    Anti-Communist riots
  • Alabama

    Alabama
    Rosa Parks
  • Khrushchev

    Khrushchev
    Leader of the Soviet Union
  • Princess Grace

    Princess Grace
    Actress and married Prince Ranier of Monacco
  • Peyton Place

    Peyton Place
    Book
  • Trouble in Suez

    Trouble in Suez
    Withdrew financial support
  • Little Rock

    Little Rock
    School Crisis
  • Pasternak

    Pasternak
    Russian poet and writer
  • Mickey Mantel

    Mickey Mantel
    baseball player for the New York Yankees
  • Kerouac

    Kerouac
    Best selling book
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    first orbiting satellite sent into space by the USSR
  • Chou En Lai

    Chou En Lai
    Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
  • Bridge on the River Kwai

    Bridge on the River Kwai
    Academy Award winning movie about a World War II Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
  • Children of Thalidomide

    Children of Thalidomide
    medication intended for pregnant women
  • Lebanon

    Lebanon
    request of Lebanese President Chamoun to help stop riots that were occurring in the country
  • Charles de Gaulle

    Charles de Gaulle
    returned to power as the leader of France.
  • California Baseball

    California Baseball
    Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team moved to Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Giants moved to San Francisco.
  • Starkweather Homocide

    Starkweather Homocide
    serial killer
  • Castro

    Castro
  • Buddy Holly

    Buddy Holly
  • Ben Hur

    Ben Hur
  • Space Monkey

    Space Monkey
  • Mafia

    Mafia
  • Hula Hoops

    Hula Hoops
  • Edsel is a no-go

    Edsel is a no-go
  • Kennedy

    Kennedy
  • U-2

    U-2
  • Syngman Rhee

    Syngman Rhee
  • Payola

    Payola
  • Chubby Checker

    Chubby Checker
  • Psycho

    Psycho
  • Belgians in the Congo

    Belgians in the Congo
  • Hemingway

    Hemingway
  • Eichmann

    Eichmann
  • Stranger in a Strange Land

    Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Dylan

    Dylan
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • Berlin

    Berlin
  • Lawrence of Arabia

    Lawrence of Arabia
  • British Beatle-mania

    British Beatle-mania
  • Ole Miss

    Ole Miss
  • John Glenn

    John Glenn
  • Liston beats Patterson

    Liston beats Patterson
  • Pope Paul

    Pope Paul
  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X
  • British politician sex

    British politician sex
  • JFK blown away

    JFK blown away
  • Birth Control

    Birth Control
  • Ho Chi-Minh

    Ho Chi-Minh
  • Richard Nixon back again

    Richard Nixon back again
  • Moon Shot

    Moon Shot
  • Woodstock

    Woodstock
  • Watergate

    Watergate
  • Punk rock

    Punk rock
  • Begin

    Begin
  • Reagan

    Reagan
  • Palestine

    Palestine
  • Terror on the airlines

    Terror on the airlines
  • Harry Truman

    Harry Truman
  • Ayatollah's in Iran

    Ayatollah's in Iran
  • Russians in Afghanistan

    Russians in Afghanistan
  • Wheel of Fortune

    Wheel of Fortune
  • Sally Ride

    Sally Ride
  • Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal
  • Suicide

    Suicide
  • Foreign Debts

    Foreign Debts
  • Homeless vets

    Homeless vets
  • AIDS

    AIDS
  • Crack

    Crack
  • Bernie Goetz

    Bernie Goetz
  • Hypodermics on the shore

    Hypodermics on the shore
  • China's under Martial Law

    China's under Martial Law
  • Rock and Roller Cola Wars

    Rock and Roller Cola Wars