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The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
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McCarthy becomes a senator and McCarthyism begins
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The Korean war begins and the us gets involved. Conflict starts with the border of the North & South
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Failed assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationals on President Harry S. Truman while the President was living at Blair House
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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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Amendment the president could not be in for no more than 2 terms
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The main goal was to help poor countries develop and to contain the spread of communism.
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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.
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General Douglas MacArthur fired by President Truman for comments about using nuclear weapons on China
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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.
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The debut of the Today show on NBC, originally hosted by Dave Garroway is the fourth longest running talk show on television.
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It was an agreement signed in 1951 to protect the security of the Pacific.
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The law abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been the basis of U.S. immigration policy since the 1920s.
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1952 United States presidential election: Dwight D. Eisenhower elected as president, Richard Nixon elected as vice president
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Eisenhower becomes the 34th President and Nixon Vice President
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The small family were accused of being soviet spies, they were soon to be killed
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The Korean Armistice Agreement is the armistice which brought about a complete cessation of hostilities of the Korean War.
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Shah of Iran returns to power in CIA-orchestrated coup known as Operation Ajax
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The Tournament of Roses Parade becomes the first event nationally televised in color
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Joseph McCarthy discredited in Army-McCarthy hearings
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Censure or formal disapproval on Senator Joseph McCarthy after the Army-McCarthy hearings. He died three years later in 1957.
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President Eisenhower proposes the Domino Theory: If South Vietnam fell to communism, so too would all nations of Southeast Asia, and eventually worldwide.
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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.
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Warsaw Pact, which establishes a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe (including the USSR)
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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.
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Murder of Emmett Till
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Rosa Parks remains seated on a bus, the incident which evolves into the Montgomery bus boycott
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AFL and CIO merge in America's largest labor union federation
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Disneyland opens at Anaheim, California
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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
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The U.S. refuses to provide military support the Hungarian Revolution
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Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
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Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller.
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Jackson Pollock dies in a car crash
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President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon begin second terms
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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
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Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction
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Soviets launch Sputnik; "space race" begins
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Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the first commercial nuclear power plant in the U.S., goes into service
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The Affluent Society written by John Galbraith
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NASA formed as the U.S. begins ramping up efforts to explore space
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Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit
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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.
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Landrum–Griffin Act, a labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers, becomes law
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The NBC western Bonanza becomes the first drama to be broadcast in color
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Revolution began in cuba
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Buddy Holly killed in Clear Lake, Iowa in plane crash.
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Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th U.S. states to date, they are the final two states admitted to the union.