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Peanuts
The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published -
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy becomes a senator and McCarthyism begins -
Korean war
The Korean war begins and the us gets involved. Conflict starts with the border of the North & South -
Failed Attempt of Assassination
Failed assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationals on President Harry S. Truman while the President was living at Blair House -
McCarran Internal Security Act
An Act to protect the United States against certain none American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes. -
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22nd Amendment
Amendment the president could not be in for no more than 2 terms -
Mutual Security Act
The main goal was to help poor countries develop and to contain the spread of communism. -
See It Now
See It Now, an American news-magazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show. -
General Douglas MacArthur
General Douglas MacArthur fired by President Truman for comments about using nuclear weapons on China -
The first live transcontinental television broadcast
The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. One month later, the situation comedy I Love Lucy premieres on CBS, sparking the rise of television in the American home and the Golden Age of Television. -
Today Show
The debut of the Today show on NBC, originally hosted by Dave Garroway is the fourth longest running talk show on television. -
ANZUS Treaty
It was an agreement signed in 1951 to protect the security of the Pacific. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
The law abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been the basis of U.S. immigration policy since the 1920s. -
New President
1952 United States presidential election: Dwight D. Eisenhower elected as president, Richard Nixon elected as vice president -
President is here
Eisenhower becomes the 34th President and Nixon Vice President -
Rosenbergs executed
The small family were accused of being soviet spies, they were soon to be killed -
Korean Armistice Agreement
The Korean Armistice Agreement is the armistice which brought about a complete cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. -
Iran
Shah of Iran returns to power in CIA-orchestrated coup known as Operation Ajax -
First in Color
The Tournament of Roses Parade becomes the first event nationally televised in color -
Joseph is trouble
Joseph McCarthy discredited in Army-McCarthy hearings -
Joe Dies
Censure or formal disapproval on Senator Joseph McCarthy after the Army-McCarthy hearings. He died three years later in 1957. -
Domino Theory
President Eisenhower proposes the Domino Theory: If South Vietnam fell to communism, so too would all nations of Southeast Asia, and eventually worldwide. -
Indochina war ends
First Indochina War ends after the U.S. kept sending aid to the French. France was defeated by Ho Chi Minh and his army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact, which establishes a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe (including the USSR) -
Bomb goes off
Detonation of "Bravo", a 15 megaton Hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons, it vaporized three islands, displaced the islanders and caused long lasting contamination. -
Murder
Murder of Emmett Till -
Rosa
Rosa Parks remains seated on a bus, the incident which evolves into the Montgomery bus boycott -
Labor Union
AFL and CIO merge in America's largest labor union federation -
Disney
Disneyland opens at Anaheim, California -
Interstate highway
President Eisenhower secures passages of Interstate Highway Act, which will construct 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of the Interstate Highway System over a 20-year period -
Hungary
The U.S. refuses to provide military support the Hungarian Revolution -
Elvis
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. -
Marilyn Married
Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller. -
Jackson Dies
Jackson Pollock dies in a car crash -
Second term
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon begin second terms -
Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine, wherein a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state -
Civil rights 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction -
Sputnik
Soviets launch Sputnik; "space race" begins -
Atomic power
Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the first commercial nuclear power plant in the U.S., goes into service -
Big book written
The Affluent Society written by John Galbraith -
Nasa
NASA formed as the U.S. begins ramping up efforts to explore space -
Integrated Circuit
Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit -
National Defense Education Act
The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) was passed in 1958 in response to Soviet acceleration of the space race with the launch of the satellite Sputnik. -
Landrum Griffin
Landrum–Griffin Act, a labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers, becomes law -
First Drama in Color
The NBC western Bonanza becomes the first drama to be broadcast in color -
Cuban Revolution
Revolution began in cuba -
Bubby Holly
Buddy Holly killed in Clear Lake, Iowa in plane crash. -
Alaska and Hawaii
Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th U.S. states to date, they are the final two states admitted to the union.