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Below find the lyrics to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire, and a map packet
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, MafiaHula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and KennedyChubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo We didn't start the fireIt was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange LandDylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion Lawrence of Arabia, British BeatlemaniaOle Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fireNo we didn't light it But we tried to fight it Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back againMoonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, 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 shores, China's under martial lawRock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fireNo we didn't light it But we tried to fight it.
YOUR TASK:
A) You are to take the lyrics that apply to Global History and using the dates placed in the appropriate countries, figure out the meanings of the references and to whom or what they apply…
B) Choose two (2) dates from each decade- 60’s, 70’, and 80’s and on the back of the packet you are to list:
The name of the person or event, and what the significance of the reference is.
THIS WILL BE DUE ON Friday May 2, 2008
