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75 Cards in this Set
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33rd president of the US
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Harry Truman
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popular singer/ actress
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Doris Day
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red troops take over China- becomes communist
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Red China
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partially deaf- singer who cried while he sang
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Johnny Ray
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Broadway's first musical- about WW1
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South Pacific
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first gossip columnist
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Walter Winchell
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"Joltin Joe" baseball player- outfielder for NY Yankees- married Marilyn Monroe. inducted into the HAll of Fame
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Joe DiMaggio
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republic senator- started "Witch Hunters"
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Joe McCarthy
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37t president
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Richard Nixon
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car
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studebaker
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popular household item
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television
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communist government
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North Korea
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start of the cold war
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South Korea
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married Joe DiMaggio -died of drug overdose
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Marilyn Monroe
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USSR spies -traitors
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Rosenburgs
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nuclear bomb
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H- Bomb
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boxing champion
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Sugar Ray
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city in South Korea
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Panmunjom
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best winning actor
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Brando
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Musical about Anne and the King of Siam
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The King and I
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popular book by Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
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34th president
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Eisenhower
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defense against polio viruses
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Vaccine
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Queen Elizabeth- became queen when she was 27
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England's got a new queen
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boxer- actor, heavyweight champion
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Marciano
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conductor, violinist, highest paid entertainer
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Liberace
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poet, novelist, philosopher
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Santayana gdbye
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dictator of Russia
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Joseph Stalin
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close associate of Joseph Stalin
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Malenkov
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Egyptian president
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Nasser
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Russian Composer who died in 1953 after putting together Peter and the Wolf.
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Prokofiev
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Chevron oil company owner
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Rockefeller
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baseball catcher- MVP for many years
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Campanella
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countries that comprised the "enemy" during the Cold War.
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Communist Bloc
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lawyer- investigated communist
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Roy Cohn
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dictator of Argentina
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Juan Peron
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great orchestra conducto- composer
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Toscanini
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beginning for polyester clothing
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Dacron
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Vietnamese- turning point of VIetnam war
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Dien Bien Phu Falls
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Bill Haley beginning of rock n roll
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Rock Around the Clock
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Nobel Prize
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atomic bomb
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actor- Rebel Without A Cause
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James Dean
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The Brooklyn Dodgers wins the World Series 4 games to 3 against the New York Yankees
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Brooklyn's got a winnig team
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Disney Show
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Davy Crockett
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animated movie, 1955
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Elvis Presley
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Walt Disney opens first disney amusement park, 1955
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Disneyland
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sex symbol and actress
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Bardot
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moved towards democracy, city
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Budapest
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proteseted against discrmination- desegregation
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Alabama
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built Berlin Wall- Russia
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Khrushchev
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married a Prince Ranier III- movie: High Moon
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Princess Grace
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first night time soap opera
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Peyton PLace
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won't let Israelites through
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Trouble in the Suez
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school desegregation
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Little Rock
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poet
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Pasternak
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baseball player- can bat left and right handed
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Mickey Mantle
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author of bestselling book:On the Road
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Kerouac
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first orbitting satellite of USSR
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Sputnik
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premiere and the foreign minister of the republic of CHina
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Chou En Lai
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1957 winnig award movie about WW2
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Bridge on the River Kawi
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US marine request president of
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Lebanon
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returns to power as the leader of France
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Charles de Gaulle
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Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball game
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California Baseball
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killer of 11 people
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Starkweather homicides
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pill that gave to help pregnancy sickness, babies born mutations
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Children of Thalidomide
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popular singer- killed in plane crash
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Buddy Holly
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movie- set around the time of Christ
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Ben Hur
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first monkey to go in space
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Space Monkey
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mafia leaders met in upstate N ew York to get better organized
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Mafia
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latest fad
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hula hoops
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started dictatorship in Cuba
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Castro
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new Ford car- only lasted 2 to 3 yrs
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Edsel is a no-go
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spy plane
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U2
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first president of South Korea- resigned 1948 -1960
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Syngman Rhee
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brbe to put ur music on radio
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payola
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