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After the Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman , Roosevelt's V.P., had became the president.
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Doris Day was an actress / activist that starred in many movies during the 1950s.
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The communists of China had tooken it over as a communist state.
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Johnnie Ray was a partially deaf singer who made top songs during this time. Those include Cry, The Little White Cloud That Cried, and Walking in the Rain.
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The show, not the Ocean (actually it is based by the ocean itself).
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Walter was a famous radio host and newspaper editor around this time.
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Joe DiMaggio was one of the many famous baseball players around this time. He was inducted into the baseball hall of fame.
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A senator from Wisconsin that had unfairly ruled in favor of commited felons and civil cases.
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He was a part of the house of representatives that was accused of being a spy.
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A popular car during 1950.
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A staple for the technology of the time, the television has changed the world in more ways than one, as it communicated others to information and had made a new form of entertainment.
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The split up between both Koreas.
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Marilyn Monroe was a popular "sex symbol" movie star. Married to Joe DiMaggio.
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Told the secrets of the Atomic Bomb to the Soviet Union. Were Executed.
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An atomic bomb made by the US.
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A famous and medal winning heavy-weight boxing champion for this time
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Area where Korea and the US made negotiations.
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A Famous movie actor for the time.
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The book/play that had became a famous movie during the time.
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A famous book among teens.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower had been Supreme Commander in the World War II fight.
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The vaccine to the dreaded disease polio was discovered.
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On February 6, 1952, Queen Elizabeth 2 ascended to the throne upon the death of her father.
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Rocky Marciano was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
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Liberace was a popular pianist and entertainer, who worked with Elvis.
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Famed philosopher George Santayana died.
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Joseph Stalin was the dictator and creator of the Soviet Union.
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A soviet politician.
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The second president of Egypt.
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A famous Russian composer and pianist.
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Winthrop Rockefeller was known as a playboy and hard drinker and was said to be a great influence on future Arkansas Governor and U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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Roy Campanella was the all-star catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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The Communist bloc was a state formed by the USSR and surrounding satelites.
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Roy Cohn was the advisor to Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Juan Perón was a popular leader in Argentina who pursued social policies aimed at empowering the working class.
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As a world-famous conductor, Arturo Toscanini was considered to have been one of the greatest classical conductors of all time.
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Dacron was an amazing material for the time.
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The French lose control over Indo-China.
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The first rock and roll hit song.
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The Death of Albert Einstein.
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James Dean was a movie star who became a symbol of young people.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team finally won the World Series.
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A famous tv show based off of the American folklore.
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A famous Broadway show.
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Nicknamed "The King", Elvis Presley became a national phenomenon with such number-one hit songs as Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel and Hound Dog.
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The theme park based off of Disney's Characters.
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A famous Movie star.
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Anti-communist riots.
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Rosa Parks and the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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One of the leaders of the Soviet Union.
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Grace Kelly married a Prince.
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The book Peyton Place became the number-1 best-seller.
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The USA withdrew their financial support for the Egyptian Aswan dam project.
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Little Rock,nine African-American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Pasternak, Boris Pasternak was a Russian poet, Mickey Mantle, Baseball player, Kerouac, author of On the Road, Sputnik, satellite made by USSR, Chou En-Lai, Minister of the Chinese Republic, Bridge on the River Kwai, famous movie based on Japanese camps.
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Lebanon, Eisenhower requested troopers to go to Lebanon,Charles de Gaulle, leader of France, California baseball, the moves of the Los Angeles Dodger and New York Giants to San Fransisco, Starkweather homicide, A serial Killer, Children of Thalidomide, Children born without limbs after their mothers took Thalidomide, a medication.
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Buddy Holly, popular singer, Ben Hur, a Movie based off of Rome, Space Monkey, monkeys were sent to space, Mafia, Mafia organizations in New York, Hula Hoops, the birth of the popular toy, Castro, Fidel Castro became prime minister of Cuba, Edsel is a no-go, a Ford car that had gotten Discontinued.
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On September 11th, Terrorists of the Al Qaeda Attacked the Pentagon and the World Trade Center with hijacked planes.
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The US made Same sex marriage legal.
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Omar Mateen killed 49 people on June 12th and it is considered the biggest Terrorist Mass Shooting in the Us.
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Donald Trump became president.
