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The 1950 census encompassed the continental United States, the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and some of the smaller island territories.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea.
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The Rosenberg's espionage trial is were United States citizens who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union
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The First Hydrogen bomb tests was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy.
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Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
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Kennedy sends people to rain the Vietnamese soldiers in Vietnam in the 1950's
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School integration in the United States is the process of ending race-based segregation, also known as desegregation, within American public and private schools
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The Presidential Election of 1952 was that nation's 42nd quadrennial presidential election. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was the landslide winner, ending a string of Democratic wins that stretched back to 1932
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The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran.
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Southern Congressmen resist desegregation with Southern Manifesto.
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McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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The Brown V. The Board of Education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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The Polio vaccines begin in 1955. Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis. There are two types: one that uses inactivated poliovirus and is given by injection, and one that uses weakened poliovirus and is given by mouth.
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McDonald’s company was founded by Ray Kroc in 1955.
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Disneyland is the only theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney.
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Nn Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
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The Federal Aid-Highway Act was the law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation.
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The popular incumbent President, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, successfully ran for re-election. The election was a re-match of 1952, as Eisenhower's opponent in 1956 was Adlai Stevenson, a former Illinois governor, whom Eisenhower had defeated four years earlier.
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The first day of school at Central High, a white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering.
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Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor union leader and author who served as the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union from 1958 until 1971. He was arrested for attempting to bribe one of hte jurors.
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Alaska becomes a state in 1959
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Hawaii becomes a state in 1959
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U.S. recognizes Fidel Castro as leader of Cuba in 1959,
