1950-1960

  • Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power

  • McCarran Internal security act established

  • Korean war begins

  • Failed assassination attempt by two puerto ricans on Harry Truman

  • 22nd amendment established

  • mutual security act

  • Immigration and Nationality act

  • Shah of Iran returns to power

  • Saint Lawrence Seaway Act

  • Brown vs Board of Education

  • united states becomes member of southeast asia treaty organization

  • Rosa parks incited the Montgomery bus boycott

  • warsaw pact

  • disneyland opens in california

  • Eisenhower secures passages of Interstate Highway act

  • Eisenhower re elected

  • soviets launch Sputnik space race begins

  • National Defense Education act

  • Cuban revolution

  • Landrum Griffin Act

  • General douglas MacArthur fired by President Truman

  • Presidential election 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower elected