The Cold War (Domestic Policy)

By IsaacPalma

  • Population Increase

    Population Increase
    For the first time, in the 1950's, the United States made a census of the total population. The population count comes to over 150 million people. New York comes to be the most populated state, then follows California.

  • The Hydrogen Bomb

    The Hydrogen Bomb
    The Hydrogen Bomb, the first of its kind, was detonated on Eniwetok atoll.

  • President Eisenhower

    President Eisenhower
    Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952. He was apart of the Republican party.

  • Recession in the US

    Recession in the US
    This recession last about 10 months before it ended in May of 1954. This was partly due to the demobilization of the Korean War and the unemployment hadn't reach its peak of 6.1%. This wasn't until in September.

  • Refugee Act of 1953

    Refugee Act of 1953
    It allowed anticommunist refugees to live in the United States. These refugees had fear of living under communist rule.

  • Brown vs. The Board Of Education of Topeka

    Brown vs. The Board Of Education of Topeka
    The Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled, unanimously, that racial segregation of children in public school was unconstitutional.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    This event was a civil rights protest, African Americans refused to use the Montgomery city buses in Alabama. Four days before the boycott occurred, Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the front of the bus. With the arrest of Rosa Parks, set off a chain of events that happened in Alabama.

  • Federal-Aid Highway act of 1956

    Federal-Aid Highway act of 1956
    Congress approved the initiative to use some $30 billion to construct 41,000 miles of interstate highways. At that time, that was the biggest public construction project in US history.

  • The birth of NASA

    The birth of NASA
    In that year, the US launched its first of many satellites. President Eisenhower signed a public order to create the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This was a federal agency dedicated for space explorations.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1960

    Civil Rights Act of 1960
    This Act was to strengthen voting rights and to spread the enforcement of the powers of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. This included provisions for federal inspections of local registrations rolls and authorized court-appointed referees to help African Americans to register and vote.