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Doris Day
­ is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist.
Red China
­ It is a term used for the People's Republic of China, commonly called a
Communist country.
Johnnie Ray
­ was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
South Pacific­ Some of the most deadliest battles of World War II were fought in the south pacific. Japan took over nearly all the islands which drew America to go and free them. Walter Winchell
­ was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.
Joe DiMaggio
­ played for the Yankees from 1936 to 1951, with time out for military service in World War II.
Joe McCarthy
­ an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
Richard Nixon
­ was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
Studebaker
­ was an American wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South
Bend, Indiana.
Television
­ is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting sound with moving images in monochrome, colour, or in three dimensions.
North Korea
­ officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country in East
Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea
­ officially the Republic of
Korea
, and commonly referred to as
Korea
, is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
Marilyn Monroe
­ was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the
1950s and early 1960s.
Rosenbergs
­ was american citizen executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
H­Bomb
­ a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium
Sugar Ray
­ is an American alternative rock band formed in 1986.
Panmunjom
­ is an abandoned village on the de facto border between North and South
Korea, where the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that paused the Korean War was signed. Brando­ was an American actor, film director, and activist.
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
Holden Caulfield recounts the days following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a private school. After a fight with his roommate, Stradlater, Holden leaves school two days early to explore New York before returning home, interacting with teachers, prostitutes, nuns, an old girlfriend, and his sister along the way. J.D.
Eisenhower­ was the 34th President of the United States, serving two terms, from
1953­1961. He was also a former U.S. general in the Army.
Vaccine­ a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
England's got a new queen
­ On February 6, 1952, Queen Elizabeth 2 ascended to the throne upon the death of her father, King George 6.
Marciano­ was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
Liberace­ was a popular pianist and entertainer, who had his own TV show in the
1950s.
Santayana goodbye
­ Famed philosopher George Santayana died in 1952.
Joseph Stalin­ was the dictator of the Soviet Union.
Malenkov
­ was a Soviet politician and Communist Party leader, and a close collaborator of Joseph Stalin.
Nasser­ was the second President of Egypt after Muhammad Naguib.
Prokofiev­ was a famous Ukrainian composer who died in 1953.
Rockefeller­
He served as Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973. He was the 41st
Vice President of the United States of America from December 19, 1974 to January 20,
1977.
Campanella­ was the all­star catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. His career was cut short by a paralyzing car accident.
Communist Bloc
­ USSR and their satellite countries formed what was called the
Communist bloc.
Roy Cohn­ was the advisor to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy Hearings on Communists in the movie industry and government.
Juan Peron­ was a popular leader in Argentina, elected first in 1946 and then again in
1952. Perón pursued social policies aimed at empowering the working class.
Toscanini
­ was a world­famous conductor who died in 1954.
Dacron­ is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in fibers for clothing, containers for liquids and foods, thermoforming for manufacturing, and in combination with glass fiber for engineering resins.

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­ The French lose control over Indochina, now known as Vietnam with the fall of the city Dien Bien Phu
Rock Around the Clock
­ Bill Haley and the Comets came out with what was considered the first rock­and­roll hit.
Einstein­ developed the Theory of Relativity in 1903 and was considered one the world's smartest scientists.
James Dean
­ was a movie star who became a symbol of young people for his role in the movie Rebel Without a Cause.
Brooklyn's got a winning team­
Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team finally won the World
Series over the New York Yankees.
Davy Crockett
­ Actor Fess Parker starred in the highly popular TV series Davy Crockett.
Peter Pan­ was a top Broadway play starring Mary Martin, who flew through the air as
Peter Pan.
Elvis Presley
­ became a national phenomenon with such number 1 hit songs as
Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel and Hound Dog.
Disneyland­
Disneyland opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California. It was a theme park, developed by Walt Disney and based around his cartoon characters. It was designated as a place for family entertainment.
Bardot­
as a popular French "sex­kitten" movie star.
Budapest:
The Hungarian capital of Budapest is the site of the Hungarian Revolution.
Alabama­
1956: In Montgomery, Alabama, citizens boycott city transportation after Rosa
Parks is arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
Khrushchev­
1956: On February 23, Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous "Secret
Speech".
Princess Grac : Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco. e­ Peyton Place he book Peyton Place became the number­1 best­seller. Teens often
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Trouble in the Suez
­ After Britain and the USA withdrew their financial support for the
Egyptian Aswan dam project, General Nasser nationalized the important Suez Canal.
Egypt was then invaded by British, French and Israeli forces. Under pressure from the
United States the invaders left Egypt and a UN emergency force was sent to Egypt.
Little Rock
­ Nine African­American students enrolled at Central High School in Little
Rock, Arkansas. Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround
Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, because he believed black and whites should be segregated, despite Federal laws on integration.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the students. The crisis gained world­wide attention.
Pasternak­
was a Russian poet and writer.
Mickey Mantle
­ was a great baseball player for the New York Yankee team.

Kerouac­ was the author of the best­selling book On the Road, which epitomized the
Beat Generation of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Sputnik­ was the name of the first orbiting satellite sent into space by the USSR.
Chou En­Lai­
Premier of the People's Republic of China, survives an assassination attempt on the charter airliner Kashmir Princess.
Bridge On The River Kwai­ released as a film adaptation of the 1954 novel and receives seven Academy Awards.
Lebanon
­ 1958 engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention. Charles de Gaulle
­ elected first president of the French Fifth Republic following the
Algerian Crisis.
California baseball­ begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to
California and become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants
Starkweather Homicide­ killed 11 people before being caught in Douglas, Wyoming
Children of Thalidomide­Used to treat morning sickness/ as a sleep aid during pregnancy. Children born with birth defects
Buddy Holly
­ died in a plane crash on February 3 with Ritchie Valens and The Big
Bopper
Ben Hur­ film based around the New Testament starring Charlton Heston, wins eleven Academy Awards.

Space Monkey­ Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight
Jupiter AM­18.
Mafia­
The Mafia was one of the most powerful gangs in the U.S.
Hula Hoops
­ reach 100 million in sales as the latest toy fad.
Castro
­ who received his doctoral college degree at Columbia University in the
U.S.­­overthrew dictator Batista and started up a Communist dictatorship in Cuba.
Edsel is a no­go­named after Edsel Ford. The car was to fit in between the Ford and
Mercury, but it was the wrong car at the wrong time and lasted only a few years until it was discontinued.
U­2
­The United States had been sending the secret U­2 high­flying spy plane over the
Soviet Union to take pictures and gather information.
Syngman Rhee
­Syngman Rhee was the first President of South Korea, serving from
1948 to 1960. His method of rule became unpopular, and he was forced to resign by a student­led democratic movement.
Payola and Kennedy
­Top national disk jockey Allen Freed was convicted of payola.
American Bandstand TV dance show host Dick Clark was accused of payola but found innocent. Chubby Checker
­is an American singer­songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist".
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Berlin­ was the last major politico­military European incident of the
Cold war about the occupational status of the German capital city,
Berlin.
Bay of Pigs invasion­ CIA­financed and ­trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
Lawrence of Arabia­ epic film of T.E. Lawrence
British Beatlemania­ is a term that originated during the 1960s to describe the intense fan frenzy directed toward british rock band the Beatles during the early years of their success Ole Miss­
Ole Miss riot was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 29, 1962.
John Glenn lenn has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on six occasions,
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November 22, 1963. Despite the evidence that identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman, many people still believe in conspiracy theories that lead them to believe others were involved.

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Ho Chi Minh­ was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister
(1945–55) and president (1945–69) of the
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Woodstock­ was the pop culture music event of the decade and arguably to this day the single most profound event in the history of music.
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United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break­in at the Democratic
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US embassy in Tehran and finally released 444 days later.
Russians in Afghanistan he Soviet Union entered Afghanistan to "protect" Communist
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Afghan rebels later used the arms supplied by the U.S. to fight the Americans.
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Sally Ride­
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as a member of the
Space Shuttle crew in 1983. Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union was the very first woman in space in 1963, orbiting the Earth 48 times.
Heavy metal
­ suicide­One viewpoint is that Billy Joel had two topics here: Heavy Metal, where heavy metal rock comes on the music scene, and Suicide, where the suicide rate among young people seemed to be rising.
Foreign debts oreign debts were causing an increase in inflation, as well as a burden
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Homeless Vets
­Many veterans of the Vietnam conflict became homeless. A major problem with them was drug addiction or alcoholism.
AIDS
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Crack potent form of the highly addictive drug cocaine called "crack" or "rock" had
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Hypodermics on the shores­
News reports showed how hundreds of carelessly discarded hypodermic needles had washed up on the New Jersey shoreline.
China's under martial law­
In June 1989, thousands of protesters marched in Tiananmen
Square in Beijing, China. Many were killed and China went under martial law unt il order was restored.
Rock and Roller Cola wars
­ epsi and Coke battle for supremacy in the P marketplace. Each hired musicians to promote their drink. Coke hired Paula Abdul, while Pepsi had Michael Jackson. They started to try to outdo each other by getting other musicians and celebrities to help promote their drinks
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SOAPSTONE(PART TWO)
SUBJECT­ Overview of what happen during this time period.
OCCASION­ The period was in 1989 after the Cold War.
AUDIENCE­ Everyone.
PURPOSE­ This song creates thoughts in peoples heads of what people have done in the world and what they can do to fix up any mistakes by using his list of legacies of earlier events.
SPEAKER­ Billy Joel
TONE­ The Composer,Billy Joel, discusses the fact that nothing we've done in recent years is directly responsible for the problems in the world
. The tone is truthful.

YOUR OWN VERSE(PART THREE)
ISIS threats ,Iraq War, Bomb in Bali, Save Darfur, Texters are jolly
Internet, Haiti Earthquake, Iran Nuclear Race
Antarctica drying, Internet Hacks, Drones are flying, Terrorist attacks
Osama killed, Katrina Blows, Oil Spilled, Pakistan Water Flows
Arab Spring Movement Begins, Fossil Fuels Polluting, Obama Wins, School Shooting
Drug Lord, Healthcare, World Cup, Ebola Scare

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