Beat generation

On The Road

By Tawna

  • Senator Joe McCarthy starts anti-witch communism hunt

  • Korean War Begins

  • First Peanuts Cartoon Strip

  • Seat Belts are Introduced

    Societal conformity and requirements to follow rules and procedure.

  • Vaccine for Polio came out

  • Playboy first comes out

    First Playboy Magazine.

  • Joseph Stalin dies.

  • Rosenburg Deaths

    Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were executed upon being found guilty for revealing U.S. Military Secrets to the Soviets. Espionage.

  • Two people climg Mt. Everest (Napal).

  • First Report that Cigarette Smoking Causes Cancer

  • Segregation made illegal in the U.S.

    Big theme of segregation and prejudice during the 1950's, brought up many times in many situations in the book.

  • Rosa Parks makes a refusal to give up her seat on a bus.

  • Warsaw Pact is signed.

  • Remote Controls for TV are invented.

    *More inventions to simplify life.

  • Peace Sign Created

  • Nobel Prize For Literature is REFUSED

    Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contemproary poetry and the great Russian narrative tradition. However he refused because he did not feel he deserved it.

  • The Sound of Music hits Broadway