1950s- Social Movements By mbookout Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1959 1950s Timeline Mar 11, 1950 construction of hydrogen bomb Mar 18, 1950 Credit Card invented Oct 2, 1950 First Peanuts Cartoon Strip Apr 5, 1951 Winston churchill prime minister of great britain Jun 27, 1951 color tv introduced Feb 6, 1952 Princess Elizabth queen at 25 May 20, 1952 Polio Vaccine created Dec 5, 1952 Great Smog of 1952 May 29, 1953 The First to Climb Mount Everest Dec 10, 1953 Joseph Stalin dies Dec 27, 1953 First Playboy Magazine May 17, 1954 Segregation ruled us Jun 20, 1954 First atomic submarine launched Jan 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat Jul 17, 1955 Disney land opens Sep 25, 1956 First transatlanitc telephone cable began operation Jan 20, 1957 Eisenhower inaugurate for second term Jan 3, 1959 Alaska is admitted to the U.S as the 49th state Dec 2, 1959 Castro dicator of Cuba
