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- Studebaker
- a popular car of the 1950's that appeared as if it was going backwards with its torpedo-shaped front end. The company went out of business in 1966.
- The Catcher in the Rye
- a novel by J. D. Salinger. First published in the United States in 1951, the novel has been a frequently challenged book[1][2][3] in its home country for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and teenage angst.
- Queen Elizabeth
- resident in and most directly involved with the United Kingdom, her oldest realm, over parts of whose territories her ancestors have reigned for more than a thousand years.
- Ike Eisenhower
- "I like Ike" pres. during WWII; responsible for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
- Sugar Ray
- He was the middleweight boxing champion of the world, and to people of his time he was considered possibly the best boxer of the world. Sugar Ray was very likeable and many people felt they could really relate to him and his hard-earned success.
- North Vietnam
- leader was Ho Chi Minh who hoped to brign nationalism and communism to vietnam
- Inflation
- when prices go up but wages stay the samel a consistent problem throughout history still present today
- The New Deal
- appraoch to relief, reform and recovery by taking one step at a time; FDR
- Stock market crash
- many companies and investors were buying on the margin "overspeculating stocks," 16 million stocks sold on oct. 29, 1929 30 billion lost
- North Korea
- led by Kim Il Sung as a communist country; a puppet of soviet union[stalin]
- South Vietnam
- Ngo Dinh Diem, a staunchly anti-Communist figure that strived to keep communism from south vietnam
- Robert Kennedy
- senator of new york running for president and would have been elected if he wasnt assasinated by sirhan sirhan
- WWI
- spark that ignited it was the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand; allies(US, great britain, russia, france) vs central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey/Ottoman Empire)
- South Korea
- led by Syngman Rhee as capitalist coutnry supported by the US (Truman)
- Joe DeMaggio
- A popular baseball player setting a record of 56 safe hits in a single game. He was married to Marilyn Monroe only for a matter of 9 months, and could be seen in several commercials of the 1980's including one for coffee.