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Saina's Pop Culture!

__** 1940’s **__ **1.What was happening in the world in the 1940’s? **
 * **One of the things that happened in the 1940's was WWII where Hitler killed more than**
 * **11 million people.**
 * **In the 1940 the worlds first helicopter went into flight**
 * **in 1945 America dropped the first ever Atomic Bomb on Japan which killedover a million people and is still killing because the disease is catchable. Even baby's that are not born get leukemia and die.**
 * **In 1944 the Olympic games here canceled because it was meant to be held in Japan. They then had a meeting in London and decided it will be held there.**
 * **1945 Hitler committed suicide**

** 2. Who where the great music stars in the 1940's? **  ** Some of the most famous musicians in the 1940's where: **


 * **Frank Sinatra**
 * **Bing Crosby[[image:nazi_symbol.jpg align="right"]]**
 * **Louis Armstrong**
 * **The Andrews Sisters**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Dick Haymes**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Helen Ward**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ray Ederle**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Helen Forrest**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**The Ink Spots**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Lee Wiley**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ivie Anderson**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Bob Eberly**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Helen O'Connell**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Art Lund**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Frankie Lane**

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**3.How did the roles and lives of women change during the 1940’s?** <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> ** In <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the 40’s Men did anything they possibly **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">could to prevent women from entering certain parts of the industry as back then the motto was "men are stronger than women". <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For about six years, from 1939 to 1945, the women ruled the work place. There wages also increased from approximately $100 per week in 1939 to $150 per week in 1940 and later to $175 in 1950. When the men came back from war a women were forced to quit there jobs. That change occurred between 1945 and 1947. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> During WWII more than 18.2 million women were employed from 1940 to 1944 and from 1945 to 1947 15.8 million women were employed. ** <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> WWII's impact on women can be looked at as positive and then as negative. If you think about it women ruled the work force for more than 6 years and proved that they could do anything that their husbands could do. Another thing with women was that when women took over the mens jobs they became very tired because of them having to also look after the kids and clean the house. This made women relise hat they didn't have to sty at home all the time to be a housewife and that they could do anything that the men did. **

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">** Why were dance bands and their music so popular? ** <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The reason why dance bands were popular was because of the war. People wanted to forget about what happened and so they listened to happy music and they would hang out with friends. **

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Why was nostalgia such an important element of pop music?** <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> ** The reason that nostalgia was such an important part of music because when yo **u thought about the past it makes <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> ** you remember the good things about the past and not the bad things like the war. In the 40's people listened to ** <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> ** really happy music so only good things could go in their minds. **

= 1950 =

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**What was the baby boom?**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**The term "baby boom" is used to identify a massive increase in the births of baby's.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Baby boomers are people born in the 50's and early 60's**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**In 2005 most baby boomers would have been aged between 41 and 59**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**There are 76 million baby boomers in the USA representing29% of the population**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**In Canada the baby boom generation is known as the "boomies"**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**In britain the baby boom generation is called "the bluge"**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Where did rock 'n' roll originate? **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Rock and Roll originated in a town called Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">It came from Rhythm & Blues **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The Cold War was a war that didn't really happen. See before the Korean War started the 2 countries had weapons that faced each other and the were enemies in WWII as well. When the Korean war was on America defended North Korea and the USSR (Russia) defended South Korea. That was really it but between the borders they through weapons at each other. So it was really a war in it self. When the war finished there relationship was worse than it was before the war. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">The Koran war was a war between South Korea and North Korea which went from 1950-1953.The war started when North Korea invaded South Korea when they stepped over the boundaries. North Korea had a total of 135,000 troops which led them to victory. During the War more than 600,000 Koreans lost <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">their lives because they got attacked. The Korean war was the first war that had the same country fight against each other. In the war prisoners were treated very badly as most police were on the streets.South and North Korea are still fighting with each other. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">**In what ways did peacetime encourage economic and industrial change?** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">In the 50's when men came back from war women went home from there jobs and as men got paid more the women had more time and money. Which meant that when women had free time they went SHOPPING!. Also in the 50's people didn't want anymore wars they just wanted peace but unfortunately that peace didn't last long. I <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 21px;">n what ways were the 50's conservative? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the 50's men came back to work and women got fired. But women then realised that they could do exactly what men could and sometimes better. So some women went back to their house work but some didn't and they went out in the streets and started to protest so that women could go back to work. After that women got more and more rights.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">What threats to world peace flared during the 50’s? **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One thing that changed the world was the Vietnam and Cold War. **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> THE COLD WAR: **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> THE KOREAN WAR: **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 39px;"> 1960's <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In what ways were the 1960’s revolutionary? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> In the 60's more people cared about peace than they did in the 60's. More and more teenagers started to <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">become violent and started to smoke or do bad things.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">How did the ‘Space Race’ impact on the world? <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;"> The space race invented much of the technology we have today. Before the 60's going to space was just a dream. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px;">Without the satillites that was put into space comuniccation with people in space would have been extremely hard, nearly impossible <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Just NASA has registered over 300,000 items like the digital clock.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 19px;">What was ‘social change’? <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 19px;"> Social change was when people started to act different <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">. Teenagers started to be more naughty and people had a <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">hard time keeping their country in control.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">What topics were the subjects of political demonstrations? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">there were a lot of political demonstrations in the 60's. Some of them were:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> John F Kennedy was president (1961-1963- he was assassinated) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Martin Luther King <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Civil rights Hippies

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 39px;">1970's <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What was the ’Civil Rights’ movement and how did it affect society?<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Civil right's was the start of equal treatment for native americans and aboriginal people. before civil rights people like <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">aboriginal's were known as plants and animals as as real people.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What advancements were there in the women’s movement in this decade? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The 1970's marked a period where women fought for better child care, public offices, the media and independence.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How/why did the Environment become an important issue? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By the start of the 70's the Environment as an important issue. Earth day also became very popular. In the 70's the energy crisis became massive and so did global warming. more and more people <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">started to save more energy and use water tanks. Also limits came in for water.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 39px;">1980's <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Why are the 1980’s seen as the ‘Me’ years? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The 80's were known as the me years because everyone only thought about them selfs not anyone else. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Also because that in the 80's not many people gave to charities.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Who were the influential musicians of the 1980’s and how did they impact this era? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">there were a lot of influential musicians in the 80's like Madonna and Michael Jackson. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MADONNA: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Madonna was very influential because her style of music was different to others. Her outragous clothes were also very poular with <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">teenage girls in the 80's. She was also known as the queen of pop. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Micheal Jackson: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Micheal jackson was probably the biggest music star in the 80's. His songs were very famous like Thriller Billie Jean and more. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">His voice was very thin and he was also known as the king of pop. Michael Jackson was also famous for his outrageous dance moves.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How did the removal of the Berlin Wall impact on western culture? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The removal of the berlin wall impacted germany a lot. For one thing the became one country again and also they went to sporting events as one Germany. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Another thing was that people who lived in West Germany could see there family who lived in East Germany.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 39px;">1990's <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In what ways were the 90’s the ‘Electronic Age’? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the 90's was known as the electronic age. In the 90's things like computers and ipods were introduced and people got more and more interested in the internet <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(eg. www.google.com.au (google was invented in 1998). now except of using Walkman's to listen to music they used ipods which were very easy to carry around and use since you could also put videos on them.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How did the advent of personal computers impact on language? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">computer's had a massive impact on our language for example we started to shorten words like what would turn into wat <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and before would turn into b4 and more. also know we take the first letter of each word and we put them together like LOL-Laigh<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> out loud <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">cbs-can't be stuffed sos-sorry. And since more and more kids have computers and text they use this words at school and also in their writing. Also since computers came in people started mailing each other except of seeing each other and talking. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Where were the beginnings of terrorism evident? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The death of 4 suicide bombers in Casablanca on april 10 2007 and the bomb attacks were massive in causing tourism attacks.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 39px; line-height: 58px;">2000's <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In what ways has ‘terrorism’ become a part of life? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the 2000's there were a lot of terrorism attacks. One of the biggest terrorism attacks so far has to be the September 11 attacks which is also called the 9/11. it is also called 'War on Terrorism' that started when Al-Qaeda(a group) crashed 2 aeroplanes into the building the twin towers in New York which killed more than 6,000 people(the towers stood standing for more than an hour before they collapsed). Also the Iraq war is also a big part of terrorism because of the people that are killed. The war has been going on for 7 years. These are just some of the terrorism that have happened in the world which have made terrorism a part of life. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What world events have had an impact on our lives? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One event that has impacted in our lves is the September 11 attacks in New York which killed more than 6,000 people. They made America from a peaceful country to a country that is now also involved in the Iraq war. September 11 is now a day when evryone in the and America would like to forget. Let's just hope this does not happen again. Another Impact on our lives has to be the battle between Iran and America about the nuclear plan and the Iraq war. This started last year when Iran had a very bad election and that is when America turned down Iran. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What world events are shaping our lives now? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There are a lot of events that are shaping our lives. For example like the Iraq war which both the U.S and Australia are involved in and were are solders fight for freedom. U.S troops are starting to come out of Iraq so are Australian troops. Another thing is the necular program in Iran which America is accusing Iran to be leading towards making a nuclear bomb. Another thing that is shaping our life is GLOBAL WARMING it has definitely become a huge part of our life and there is nothing we can do to stop it but we can reduce it by using less paper turing the lights of when we are not using them and using water efficiently. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE SHAPING THE WORLD. IN THE FUTURE THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE MORE OF THEM BUT LET'S HOPE THAT WE LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES AND MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE.