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US Political Figures

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Walter Winchell,

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Walter Winchell was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator.the first major commentator to directly attack Adolf Hitler and American pro-fascist organizations such as the German American Bund. 1948 and 1949, he and influential columnist Drew Pearson attacked Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in columns and radio broadcasts

Harry Truman

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in 1947, Harry S. Truman formally committed the United States to the containment of Soviet expansionism in Europe.authorize the development of an even more powerful weapon—the hydrogen bomb—to counter the Soviets, thus accelerating the Cold War arms race. He did this so because he established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance

Richard Nixon

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Richard Nixon established the US foreign policy during his presidency(1969–1974) focused on reducing the dangers of the Cold War among the Soviet Union and China.Richard Nixon fundamentally reshaped the way the United States approached the world. Before Nixon took office, most American leaders shared a common Cold War ideology

Richard Nixon back again

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Nixon came back in 1968.Richard Nixon delivered his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination, which he had won the same day. James Reston of The Times called it “the greatest comeback since Lazarus.”New Nixon” beamed reassuringly for the cameras.

Joe MCarthy

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Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950, when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department.

Actors, Music, and Rock Stars

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Rock Around the Clock

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On July 9, 1955 "Rock Around the Clock" became the first rock and roll recording to hit the top of Billboard's Pop charts, It stayed for 8 weeks. This song caused riots in 1956.

Elvis Presley

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Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures. In 1958–60, he served in Germany in a tank unit during the Berlin Crisis. He was important 2 both sides of the cold war.

Bardot

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she was an actor. She started her acting career in 1952 and achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman..Bardot rebelled against her strict upbringing and became a global sex symbol, helping ignite a worldwide sexual revolution

Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution.represented a celebration of everything that the American narrative insisted the Soviets wanted to destroy

Liberace

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Władziu Valentino Liberace was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. known as "Mr. Showmanship," set the standard for the glitz and glamour that symbolizes Las Vegas.In 1952, The Liberace Show , a syndicated television program, turned Liberace into a musical symbol.

pop culture

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Disneyland

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ndeed, by attending Disneyland in the 1950s, families created their idealized suburban America mythos as real. Disneyland theme park's significance draws from its development as the first themed park in conjunction with its position as representative of a 1950s suburban American psyche.

wheel of fortunate

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The wheel of fortune first came out during the cold war in 1946. It was the first game show ever held. It was a luxury to go to the show. First debuted in 1975.

Hula Hoops

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1963: the Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin. The Soviet Union said the Hula Hoop® toy was an example of the "emptiness of American culture. Wham-O manufactured 20,000 hoops a day at the peak of Hula Hoop® popularity.

Rock and roller cola wars,

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The “Cola Wars,” a slogan created in the 1980's as a satirical response to the “Cold War”, between Pepsi and Coca Cola originally began in 1975 with the introduction of the first Pepsi Challenge.Businesses created much of a hype between millions of people when the Rock and Roller Cola War began. In a "carefully waged competitive struggle," from 1975 to 1995 both Coke and Pepsi had achieved average annual growth of around 10%

books and movies

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"Psycho", movie

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The famed director's portrayal of a psychologically damaged young man connected with a much larger discussion over political and sexual deviance in the early Cold War, a discussion that cantered on the image of the psychopath as the dominant threat to national securityrepresents a filmic example of the fever pitch of Cold War hysteria over America's "crisis of masculinity. This movie was made in 1960

Ben Hur

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This movie has the appeal of a rollicking historical adventure combined with a sincere Christian message of redemption. This movie was the chariot-race sequence, which was amazing for its time and directly inspired the now-legendary 1959 version.It was based, of course, on American writer Lew Wallace's 1880 adventure novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ,

Bridge on the River Kwai

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This is a movie that was released on December 14, 1957 in the USA. This iconic landmark serves as a poignant reminder of the atrocities suffered here during World War II. The movie was An Anti-War Film honored with 7 Oscar wins.

Actors, Music, and Rock Stars

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Chubby Checker

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Chubby Checker is an American singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the pony dance style with the 1961 cover of the song "Pony. He created the song twist and it was very conversational from critics who felt it was too provocative.

Punk rock

derrickthompson3 — 2024-05-20 12:09:34 UTC

During the time of the cold war, punk rock was used to inform people of political conflicts happening throughout the world and did it through music (1). Punk rock bands also sang about the economic problems during the cold war. Before the cold war though swing, jazz, blues, and the big band were very popular