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Period: to
COLD WAR
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Korean War Begins
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are convicted as Soviet spies
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Olympics at Helsinki, Finland
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First Hydrogen Bomb at Eniwetok Atoll
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Armistice Signed to end Korean War
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First color T.V. sets sold
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Children begin to be vaccinated for polio
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McCarthy "Witch Hunt" trials begin
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Alaska admitted to union as 49th state
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Hawaii is admitted as 50th state
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First of the Eisenhower and Khrushchev meetings