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I have to do an assignment for history and we have to find all the subjects or names in the song "We didn't start the fire" that relate to the cold war, and how.If you can think of anything, it'd be great.here are the lyrics..Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbyeCHORUSWe didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireThough we did ignite itBut we tried to fight itJosef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, DacronDien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning teamDavy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, KhrushchevPrincess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireThough we did ignite itBut we tried to fight it Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, KerouacSputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball, Starkwether, Homicide, Children of ThalidomideBuddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, MafiaHula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and KennedyChubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireThough we did ignite itBut we tried to fight it Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion Lawrence of Arabia, British BeatlemaniaOle Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sexJ.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireThough we did ignite itBut we tried to fight it Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back againMoonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rockBegin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlineAyatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicideForeign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie GoetzHypodermics on the shores, China's under martial lawRock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore We didn't start the fireIt was always burning since the world's been turning.We didn't start the fireBut when we are goneIt will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireThough we did ignite itBut we tried to fight it We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireThough we did ignite butBut we tried to fight it We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fire...

You have a lot of research to do. The only help I can give you is that the Cold War is generally considered to have ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, so any references after that time wouldn't apply.

Ok, I'm probably not covering all the references, but these are definitely relevant:Harry Truman - US president during the initial stages of the cold warRed China - communist ChinaWalter Winchell - US radioman who ruined many a man by "outing" them for supposedly being communistJoe McCarthy - US senator behind the communist witch hunt of the 50sRichard Nixon - US president during the cold warNorth Korea South KoreaRosenbergs - American couple accused, tried and convicted of being Russian spiesH Bomb - Hydrogen bomb created to protect the US people during the cold warJosef Stalin - Dictator of the USSR during the beginning of the cold warCommunist BlocDien Bien Phu Falls - the French lose their battle against the communists in VietnamKhrushchev - Dictator of USSR during the cold warSputnik - part of the space race between the US and the USSRChou En-Lai - Dictator of ChinaSpace Monkey - part of the space raceCastro - Cuban dictatorBerlin - German city divided into east and west by the cold warHo Chi Minh - ruler of communist VietnamRichard Nixon back againRussians in Afghanistan China's under martial lawGood luck with the assignment.