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Socrates was a greek philosopher who is one of the creators of western philosophy. -
Genghis Khan was the founder of the mongol empire.He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast asia. -
Joan of arc was considered the hero of france, because she stopped british advances, she was later burned at the stake and died. -
Napoleon was a brilliant general during the french revolution. He conquered Europe easily.He made the mistake of trying to conquer russia and his army met their demise. -
Beethoven was a world class musician... who went deaf. -
Abraham Lincoln was a american president who abolished slavery the 1860s. He was shot by John willix booth during a play. -
Sigmund freud was a neurosurgeon and founder of psychoanalysis. -
He was an american gunslinger.He killed 8 men before getting shot at the age of 21. -
Santayana was a very smart man who attended Harvard university. He was born in 1863 -
Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. -
Syngman Rhee was a South Korean politician and dictator who was the founder and served as the first President of South Korea, from 1948 to 1960. -
Joseph Stalin was the Russian Leader during WW2 and afterwards, was the Leader of the soviet union or USSR -
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. -
Harry Truman was the vice-president during WW2, and after FDR died he became president during the beginning of the Cold War. -
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. -
Eisenhower was a US president. -
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II. -
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. -
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine Army general and politician. -
Walter was an American journalist -
Zhou Enlai, Wade-Giles transliteration Chou En-lai, was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China. -
Malenkov briefly succeeded Stalin and controlled the Soviet Union. -
Joe McCarthy was an American politician. -
Richard Nixon was an American president between 1969-1974 -
Joseph Paul DiMaggio, nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American baseball player. -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States -
Roy was an American baseball player, a professional National League catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, often known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry. -
Doris Day was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. -
He was a Wrestler -
Brando was an american actor, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice. -
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters. -
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz better known internationally as Fidel Castro, was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President. -
John Alvin Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. -
An american lawyer -
Television is just a simple screen where you can watch things on. -
Grace Patricia Kelly was an American film actress -
James Byron Dean was an American actor. -
Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed The Commerce Comet and The Mick, was an American professional baseball player. -
Brigitte Bardot is a French model and actress who graced the cover of Elle magazine as a teen and went on to star in several films before being featured in 1956's And God Created Woman, which launched her to international fame. -
Elvis Aaron Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician and actor. -
Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. -
Singer Chubby Checker came out with the song The Twist, which started a national dance sensation.During the 1960s. -
Communist controlled china -
South pacific is a musical -
studebaker is a popular automobile, -
The Korean war was fought between the south backed by the US and The North backed by Russia. -
These two were convicted of betraying the USA during the Cold War by selling out secrets. -
The Korean war was fought between the south backed by the US and The North backed by Russia. -
it was a epidemic going on in the time of 1950s -
This is a Musical made by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. -
H-bomb stands for Hydrogen bomb and it's much more powerful, than the atom bomb -
The Catcher in the Rye was a novel. -
Liberace was a pianist during the cold war -
King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham. -
Nasser become the Egyptian President in 1953 and remained in office until 1970.Prokofiev was a famous russian composer. -
Peter Pan is an animated Disney film. -
An agreement on POW problem was reached -
The synthetic fiber was used to graft arteries and veins during bypass surgery. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. -
Rock around the clock was a song made by Bill Haley -
The 1955 World Series matched the Brooklyn Dodgers against the New York Yankees -
Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. -
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from the 23rd of October until the 10th of November 1956. -
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom -
The standoff at Little Rock Central High School occurred in 1957, at the height of the Cold War. -
Bridge on the River Kwai is an 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. -
Using chimpanzees as stand-ins for humans had been on NASA’s radar for a quite a while, since primates are our closest animal relative. NASA sent a team of vets to Africa that brought back baby chimps to begin training immediately. -
Well, the Ford Motor Company introduced the 1958 model Edsel automobile on September 4, 1957 after much fanfare. Initial sales were disappointing to say the least. Ford had hoped to sell 200,000 of the 1958 model Edsels, but ended up only producing 68,045. -
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the USSR on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. -
Arab Cold War — The 1958 Lebanon crisis (also known as the Lebanese Civil War of 1958) was a Lebanese political crisis -
Charles Raymond "Charlie" Starkweather was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958. -
Epic drama about an aristocratic Jew living in Judaea who incurs the wrath of a childhood friend, now a Roman tribune. -
Many disk jockeys were exposed for taking bribes to pay certain songs on the radio, thus biasing the record sales. -
Psycho is a thriller movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. -
The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. -
Thalidomide
It can treat and prevent a skin disease caused by leprosy (erythema nodosum leprosum). It can also be used with dexamethasone to treat multiple myeloma. -
Famous author Ernest Hemingway committed suicide. -
Stranger in a Strange Land was an award-winning fictional book by Robert A. Heinlein about Valentine Michael Smith. -
Singer Bob Dylan led the folk music craze. -
The Soviets erected the Berlin Wall, dividing the city into the Russian-controlled part and the area controlled by the U.S., British and French. -
In 1960, the Eisenhower Administration created a plan to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba. In April of 1961, newly-elected President John F. Kennedy allowed the attack on Cuba. -
British rock group the Beatles took over the music scene, with numerous hit records on the Top-40 charts. -
University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) admitted its first black or African-American student, James Meredith, with U.S. Marshals enforcing the rules to integrate the school. -
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. He had previously been a U.S. Marine test pilot, but in 1959 he was assigned to NASA as one of the original group of Mercury astronauts. -
Boxer Sonny Liston easily defeated Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson to gain the title. -
Former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was arrested in Argentina and brought to Israel, where he was convicted of war crimes and executed. -
The 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole won the Academy Awards. -
The M-28 or M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was the tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M-388 nuclear projectile that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War. -
Pope Paul VI was pope—or leader—of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978. -
Malcolm X came into the news when he preached separation of the races as part of the Black Muslim teachings. -
A sex scandal rocked British Parliament. Secretary of State for War John Profumo was highly respected and married, but after it was discovered that he had a several week affair with a showgirl named Christine Keeler, he was forced to resign. -
Hula hoop was made in 1963 -
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. Kennedy was riding in an open-top automobile in a presidential motorcade when Lee Harvey Oswald shot him through the head with a sniper rifle from a sixth floor window of a nearby building. -
Like the novel and film of the same name, this nighttime soap opera is set in the small New England town of Peyton Place -
Birth Control became an issue with the advent of the birth control pill. Later, abortion was legalized. -
After losing the election for President to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and then losing his bid to be Governor of California in 1962, former Vice President Richard Nixon fought back to regain prominence in national politics. -
Ho Chi-Minh was the leader of the Communist North Vietnamese, who first fought the French and then the Americans. -
The United States landed the first man on the moon. -
A farmer in the Woodstock area of New York state donated his land for a rock concert. Surprisingly, 600,000 rock fans showed up, making it the biggest rock concert ever held. -
Punk rock hits the music scene with such groups as the Sex Pistols, who would spit at the audience. -
Palestinians protested unfair treatment by the Israelis. -
Supporters and staff of U.S. President Richard Nixon were accused of breaking into the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate hotel. -
The Wheel of Fortune TV show became a favorite. -
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin, formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. -
Numerous airline hijackings were in the news. -
The Shah of Iran—who was supported by the United States—was overthrown and Ayatollah Khomeini took over the country. Hostages were taken at the US embassy in Tehran and finally released 444 days later. -
One 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 were causing an increase in inflation, as well as a burden on American taxpayers. -
Former movie actor Ronald Reagan became President of the United States. -
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) disease started to spread throughout the world. -
Bernie Goetz was a New Yorker who was concerned about crime in the city. After he got on a subway in the afternoon, four African-American youths approached Goetz and demanded $5 from him. He pulled out a gun and shot all four. Then he shot one of the youths again, as he lay on the floor, severing the spinal cord and paralyzing him. -
Begin was Prime Minister of Israel. -
Many veterans of the Vietnam conflict became homeless. A major problem with them was drug addiction or alcoholism. -
U.S. airborne assault on Grenada in 1983. -
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. -
A potent form of the highly addictive drug cocaine called "crack" or "rock" had been rapidly spreading in the United States, especially in troubled neighborhoods. -
Sugar ray was a rock band that was made in 1986 -
News reports showed how hundreds of carelessly discarded hypodermic needles had washed up on the New Jersey shoreline. -
The Soviet Union entered Afghanistan to "protect" Communist interests in the country. -
In June 1989, thousands of protesters marched in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Many were killed and China went under martial law until order was restored. -
Pepsi and Coke battle for supremacy in the marketplace. Each hired musicians to promote their drink. -
This was Stalins buffer zone basically, which stayed up from 1947-1991, which is essentially the Cold war Timespan