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1950s census
in the 1950 there were 150,697,361 people in the US -
Rosenberg’s espionage trial
The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.” But in a practical sense they were held accountable for giving the so-called “secret of the atomic bomb” to the USSR. -
McCarthy Congressional hearings looking for communists
Senator Joseph McCarthy claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are “known communists.” -
Korean War
The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. -
First Hydrogen Bomb Test
It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll -
Containment policy of communism
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Presidential Election of 1952
November 4, 1952, in which Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower easily defeated Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson. -
Polio vaccines begin
Most people should get polio vaccine when they are children. Children get 4 doses of IPV at these ages: 2 months, 4 months, 6-18 months, and a booster dose at 4-6 years -
CIA assists overthrow of government in Iran 1954
The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. -
Brown V. The Board of Education
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
McDonald’s company founded by Ray Kroc
There he found a small but successful restaurant run by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, and was stunned by the effectiveness of their operation. -
Disneyland opens
Walt Disney’s fantasy and futurism,the $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat
Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress Rosa Park helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. -
Southern Congressmen resist desegregation with Southern Manifesto
19 Senators and 77 members of the House of Representatives signed the "Southern Manifesto," a resolution condemning the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. -
Presidential Election of 1956
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, successfully ran for re-election. The election was a re-match of 1952, as Eisenhower's opponent in 1956 was Adlai Stevenson, -
Federal Aid-Highway Act
National System of Interstate and Defense Highways according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.” -
National Guard called to Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School
The group came to be known as the Little Rock Nine. Governor Orval Faubus announced that he would call in the Arkansas National Guard -
U.S. government orders all public schools to be intergrated
The desegregation of the public schools in Virginia continued through early in the 1970s when the state government's attempts to resist desegregation ended. -
Alaska becomes a state
Alaska become a state we bought from Russia in 1959 -
Hawaii becomes a state
The president also issued an order for an American flag featuring 50 stars arranged in staggered rows: five six-star rows and four five-star rows. The new flag became official July 4, 1960. -
U.S. recognizes Fidel Castro as leader of Cuba
Cuba, U.S. officials recognize the new provisional government of the island nation. Despite fears that Fidel Castro -
U.S. government agrees to train Vietnamese soldiers in Vietnam
President John F. Kennedy and South Vietnam envoy Nguyen Dinh Thuan, an agreement is reached for direct training and combat supervision of Vietnamese troops by U.S. instructors -
Jimmy Hoffa arrested by FBI
One of the most famous American figures to inexplicably disappear was Jimmy Hoffa, the famed president of the Teamsters Union from 1957 until he went to prison in 1967.
