If you're wondering what Billy Joel is talking about in his hit "We Didn't Start the Fire", here is a web site in which the events of the Cold War are defined in his song.

http://www.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schule/fachber/englisch/joel/songtext.html

hah we hadda listen to that it Social Studies last night.....
" We didnt start the fire.. it's been burning since the world was turning..."