My timeline

By hawks0310

  • 1949

    1949
    Harry Truman is inaugurated as U.S. president after being elected in 1948 to his own term;
    previously he was sworn in following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He authorized
    the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II, on August 6
    and August 9, 1945, respectively.

  • 1950

    1950
    Joe McCarthy, the US Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusad
    e with his Lincoln Day speech.

  • 1951

    1951
    H-Bomb is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950
    and first tested in late 1952

  • 1952

    1952
    England's got a new queen: Queen Elizabeth II succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom
    and the Commonwealth Realms upon the death of George VI of the United Kingdom and is crown
    ed the next year.

  • 1953

    1953
    Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Stalin for six months following his death.
    Malenkov had presided over Stalin's purges of party "enemies", but would be spared a
    similar fate by Nikita Khrushchev mentioned later in verse.

  • 1954

    1954
    Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel and enters private practice with the
    fall of McCarthy. He also worked to prosecute the Rosenbergs, mentioned earlier in verse

  • 1955

    1955
    James Dean achieves success with East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, gets nominated
    for an Academy Award for Best Actor,and dies in a car accident on September 30 at the
    age of 24

  • 1957

    1957
    Little Rock, Arkansas is the site of an anti-integration standoff, as Governor Orval
    Faubus stops the Little Rock Nine from attending Little Rock Central High School and
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys the 101st Airborne Division to counteract him.

  • 1960

    1960
    Psycho: An Alfred Hitchcock thriller, based on a pulp novel by Robert Bloch and adapted
    by Joseph Stefano, which becomes a landmark in graphic violence and cinema
    sensationalism. The screeching violins heard briefly in the background of the song are
    a trademark of the film's soundtrack.

  • 1962

    1962
    British Beatlemania: The Beatles, a British rock group, gain Ringo Starr as drummer and
    Brian Epstein as manager, and join the EMI's Parlophone label. They soon become the
    world's most famous rock band , with the word "Beatlemania" adopted by the press for
    their fans' unprecedented enthusiasm. It also began the British Invasion in the
    United States