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Well it was the era of McCarthyism when the US basically was paranoid of Communism and deported anyone who was a little different out of fear of communism.
Important Historic and Cultural Events
1950 - Pres. Harry Truman ( 'til 1952) approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends air force and navy to Korea in June.
1951 - Transcontinental television begins with a speech by Pres. Truman.
1953 - 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower is president.
1952 - The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 removes racial and ethnic barriers to becoming a U.S. citizen. In Russia a large earthquake destroyed kamchatka
1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are electrocuted for their part in W.W.II espionage.
1953 - Fighting ends in Korea.
1954 - U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy begins televised hearings into alleged Communists in the army.
1954 - Racial segregation is ruled unconstitutional in public schools by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge making the new AFL-CIO an organization with 15 million members.
also in 1955 Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio
1956 - The Federal Highway Act is signed, marking the beginning of work on the interstate highway system.
1958 - Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite, successfully orbits the earth.
1958 - The first domestic jet-airline passenger service is begun by National Airlines between New York City and Miami.
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states.
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html accessed 17/10/08
Well it was the era of McCarthyism when the US basically was paranoid of Communism and deported anyone who was a little different out of fear of communism.
Important Historic and Cultural Events
1950 - Pres. Harry Truman ( 'til 1952) approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends air force and navy to Korea in June.
1951 - Transcontinental television begins with a speech by Pres. Truman.
1953 - 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower is president.
1952 - The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 removes racial and ethnic barriers to becoming a U.S. citizen.
1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are electrocuted for their part in W.W.II espionage.
1953 - Fighting ends in Korea.
1954 - U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy begins televised hearings into alleged Communists in the army.
1954 - Racial segregation is ruled unconstitutional in public schools by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge making the new AFL-CIO an organization with 15 million members.
also in 1955 Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio
1956 - The Federal Highway Act is signed, marking the beginning of work on the interstate highway system.
1958 - Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite, successfully orbits the earth.
1958 - The first domestic jet-airline passenger service is begun by National Airlines between New York City and Miami.
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states.
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html accessed 17/10/08
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∙ 11y agoEurope was still picking up from the Second World War but on its way to recovery. However, the United States was near its peak in world economic dominance. The 50s is often considered one of the most prosperous periods in American history.
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∙ 8y agoThe American Economy in the fifties was amazing. After World War II the US was on top of the world! It just had emerged from the worlds largest war as an economic and military powerhouse. Homes and towns sprung up everywhere. The 1950's also saw the baby boomers, where basically, all the returning soldiers and women had fun and made many future Americans, but back to the economy. During World War II the government restarted factories and created many new jobs to increase war effort. These factories made cars, clothes, weapons, and created masses of food to feed the soldiers. Once the war was over, what happened to all these jobs and factories? They stayed around and did some tweaking to make things for citizens instead of soldiers. So the US made all these products and had many jobs. The unemployment at its lowest in the 1950's was around 2.9% and at its highest around 5.5%. So America basically had a great economy.
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∙ 9y agoThe economic climate of the US in the 1950s was seen to be stagnant. However, in the 1960s, there was gradual growth in the US economy.
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∙ 13y agoThe economic situation of America in the 1950s was a great postwar economy. After WWII, the U.S. had an economic boom, making these United States the greatest economy of that decade.
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∙ 12y agoThe war ended, the president changed it, people got there jobs back, and Americans worked harder
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∙ 13y agoits strength in manufacturing
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