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The Korean War begins. The U.S. sides with South Korea and the Soviet Union sides with North Korea.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are found guilty of wartime espionage and sentenced to death.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower, a newcomer to politics, but popular due to his role in winning World War II as European commander
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Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education.
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Disneyland opens. Walt Disney opened it due to his father working at world fairs.
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Rosa Parks stays in the front of the bus and wont move for a white man. She got arrested later for not moving.
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Interstate highway system begins with the signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act. The interstate highway system would enable quick and efficient travel for business and leisure travelers and make destinations like Disneyland and the National Park system more easily connected to the urban population centers of the USA.
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National Guard called to duty by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus to bar nine black students from attending previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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NASA selects the first seven military pilots to become the Mercury Seven, first astronauts of the United States.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the first visit of any Soviet Union leader to the United States.
