Fahrenheit 451: pub 1953 (1949-1957)

Mao Zedong takes control of comunist China

Mar 17, 1949

HE was blamed/responcible for 40 million to 80 million deaths in China.

12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty

Apr 4, 1949

Signed in Washington DC. Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Neatherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States all founding members. The treaty includes Article 4, which triggers not military intervention but merely consultation over military matters. The key section of the treaty is Article 5. Its commitment clause defines the casus foederis. It commits each member state to consider an armed attack against one member state to be an armed attack against th

Hydrogen Bomb

Feb 22, 1950

PRes Truman gives the go from making a Hydrogen bomb.

North Korea invades South Korea

Mar 19, 1950

COmmunist NOrth Korea.

Comunist China Invades Tibet

May 22, 1950

Comunist china invades tibet for land

22nd Amendment

Feb 27, 1951

Limiting terms the president uses.

HEart Valve

Mar 19, 1952

The first plastic artificial heart valve is developed at Georgetown Medical Center

Surgery

Mar 19, 1952

First successful open-heart surgery is performed in Philadelphia.

Joseph Stalin's Death

Mar 5, 1953

Ruleing the Soviet Union from 1922 to his death in 1953. Exicuting and deporting millions of people to gain power. Helped defeate Hitler and Nazi Germany. between 45 and 48 he created comunist regimes to buffer a potential attack from the west. Encoraged the attack of South Korea from the North.

Vaccine

Mar 19, 1953

First children receive Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.

Civil rights

Mar 19, 1954

Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of the bus, breaking Montgomery, Ala., segregated seating law (Dec. 1). Martin Luther King, Jr., leads 381-day black boycott of Montgomery bus system;

Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

Russia launches Sputnik I, first earth-orbiting satellite—the Space Age begins