Extension Activity Assessment Standards Timeline Teacher Resources The Song |
The lyrics to "We Didn't Start the Fire" list some of
the historically significant people, ideas, and events of the twentieth
century in chronological order. Below is a timeline of the topics
listed in the song.
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 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
1952
Eisenhower |
Vaccine |
England's got a new Queen |
Marciano |
Liberace |
Santayana good-bye |
1953
Joseph Stalin |
Malenkov |
Nasser |
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 |
Krushchev |
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 of Thalidomide |
1959
Buddy Holly |
Ben Hur |
Space Monkey |
Mafia |
Hula hoops |
Castro |
Edsel is a no-go |
1960
U-2 |
Syngman Rhee |
Payola |
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 Beatle Mania |
Ole Miss |
John Glenn |
Liston beats Patterson |
1963
Pope Paul |
Malcom X |
British Politician Sex |
JFK Blown away |
1964
Birth Control |
Ho Chi Minh |
Richard Nixon back again |
Moonshot |
1965 - 1989
Reagan |
Palestine |
Terror on the Airline |
Ayatollah's in Iran |
Russians in Afghanistan |
Wheel of Fortune |
Sally Ride |
Heavy Metal Suicide |
Foreign Debts |
Homeless Vets |
AIDS |
Crack |
Bernie Goetz |
Hypodermics on the Shore |
China's under Martial Law |
Rock & Roller Cola Wars |
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