We Didn't Start the Fire - What I Think - Part 8
This is the eight post in my blog series about the song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. I am writing about the significance of each item mentioned in the song. That is, what significance I THINK they have. I am not doing any research or looking anything up, so I could be totally wrong. (And I've been starting to take a little ribbing at just how wrong I have been on some of them. That's OK though, I think I've got today's nailed.)
More information about this blog series can be found in the series' first post.
Bardot - Bridgette Bardot was an American movie star. She won an academy award for best actress for her role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962.
Budapest - Budapest is the capital of Hungary. The 1962 Winter Olympics were held there.
Alabama - Alabama was at the center of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. From courts ordering that black students be admitted to Ole Miss to the Birmingham Bus Boycott and the marching across the Montgomery bridge, much of the fight for civil rights that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lead occurred in Alabama.
Krushchev - Nikita Kruschev was the president of the Soviet Union. His regime was embroiled in the Cold War with the United States. One of his main goals was spreading communist influences to other nations. Kruschev once became so enraged during a speech at the United Nations that he took off his shoe and pounded the heel of it on his podium.
Princess Grace - Princess Grace was the princess of Monaco. She got married in the early 1960s. This was the first televised royal wedding and it was viewed by millions all around the world.
"Peyton Place" - Peyton Place was a television drama that was popular in the 1960s.
trouble in the Suez - The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. It is between Egypt and Israel. The trouble in this region was that these two nations were not getting along.
More information about this blog series can be found in the series' first post.
Bardot - Bridgette Bardot was an American movie star. She won an academy award for best actress for her role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962.
Budapest - Budapest is the capital of Hungary. The 1962 Winter Olympics were held there.
Alabama - Alabama was at the center of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. From courts ordering that black students be admitted to Ole Miss to the Birmingham Bus Boycott and the marching across the Montgomery bridge, much of the fight for civil rights that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lead occurred in Alabama.
Krushchev - Nikita Kruschev was the president of the Soviet Union. His regime was embroiled in the Cold War with the United States. One of his main goals was spreading communist influences to other nations. Kruschev once became so enraged during a speech at the United Nations that he took off his shoe and pounded the heel of it on his podium.
Princess Grace - Princess Grace was the princess of Monaco. She got married in the early 1960s. This was the first televised royal wedding and it was viewed by millions all around the world.
"Peyton Place" - Peyton Place was a television drama that was popular in the 1960s.
trouble in the Suez - The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. It is between Egypt and Israel. The trouble in this region was that these two nations were not getting along.
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