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The 34th vice president of the united states, While vice president he implemented the Marshall plan to rebuild western Europe. he also established the Truman doctrine and NATO, NATO means North Atlantic Treaty organization which is an agreement between 30 European and north american countries which constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party -
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China . The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang , which broke out immediately following World War II -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day. -
King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham. Princess Elizabeth, the oldest of the king’s two daughters and next in line to succeed him, was in Kenya at the time of her father’s death Elizabeth understood the value of public relations and allowed her coronation to be televised, Elizabeth as worked hard at her royal duties and become a popular figure around the world. -
the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the French pulled out of the region. Concerned about regional instability, the United States became increasingly committed to countering communist nationalists in Indochina. The United States would not pull out of Vietnam for another twenty years. -
Rock Around the Clock was more important because it was the first rock'n'roll record heard by millions of people worldwide and is a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers -
Walt Disney’s new theme park, named “Disneyland,” opened to the public in Anaheim, California. -
A political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama, It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement in the United States. the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person -
when Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal, a valuable waterway that controlled two-thirds of the oil used by Europe -
American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957, After three largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950, when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department, -
The 1957 Major League Baseball season was played, The National League's Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants played their final seasons as New York City-based franchises before their moves to California for the 1958 season, leaving New York without a National League team until the birth of the Mets in 1962. -
Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school.The 1954 Supreme Court decision made segregation in public schools illegal. Governor Faubus defied this decision. He also defied a 1955 ruling -
Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school. The 1955 decision ordered that public schools be desegregated with all deliberate speed. -
was the first artificial Earth satellite.[6] It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the USSR on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere on the 4th January 1958. -
Widely considered to have been one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game, he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1940s and 1950s, as one of the pioneers in breaking the color barrier in the MLB. His playing career ended when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident in January 1958. -
When Baker made her famous flight, she had some company in the nose cone of the Jupiter ballistic missile: a rhesus monkey named Able. Able and Baker were shot about 360 miles up into space and experienced about nine minutes of weightlessness. Their safe return occurred two years before any humans flew into space -
The Soviet premier Nikita told the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. that an American spy plane had been shot down on May 1 over Sverdlovsk , May 7 he revealed that the pilot of the plane, Francis Gary Powers, had parachuted to safety, was alive and well in Moscow, and had testified that he had taken off from Peshawar, in Pakistan, with the mission of flying across the Soviet Union over several states and military airfield in Norway, collecting intelligence information en route. -
a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. Covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government, the operation took place at the height of the Cold War, and its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union. -
Meredith applied to the University of Mississippi but his admission was revoked when the register found knew his race. A federal court ordered “Ole Miss” to admit him, but when he tried to register he found the entrance to the office blocked by Governor Ross Barnett. the governor was found guilty of civil contempt and was ordered to cease his interference with desegregation at the university or face arrest and a fine of $10,000 a day.
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the Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin. An estimated 25 million Hula Hoops were sold in its first four months of production alone. -
Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000 Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite sporadic rain. -
a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the replacement of his government with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a leader of one of the factions in the revolt. The revolution was supported by various Islamist and leftist organizations and student movements. -
an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman in space. She was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. -
China decreed that any political adversary would be treated as an enemy, and that even lethal force may be used on them.In April students starting a march protest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing because they wanted more democracy in their country. The march continued until the first week of June, The military of China came to Beijing and killed hundreds of people who were in the movement. -
The Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula was adopted between the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, and the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in This declaration agreed that both sides would "make active efforts to seek the support and cooperation of the international community for the denuclearize of the Korean peninsula".