1950s Timeline - USA

1950
First Modern Credit Card Introduced
First Organ Transplant
First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
Korean War Begins
Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch unt
!"S" President Truman Orders Construction o# ydrogen Bom$
1951
Color T% Introduced
South &#ricans Forced to Carry I' Cards Identi#ying (ace
Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan) O##icially *nding WWII
Winston Churchill &gain Prime Minister o# +reat Britain
1952
Car Seat Belts Introduced
The +reat Smog o# ,-./
Jac0ues Cousteau 'isco1ers &ncient +ree2 Ship
Polio %accine Created
Princess *li3a$eth Becomes 4ueen at &ge /.
1953
'5& 'isco1ered
First Playboy Maga3ine
illary and 5orgay Clim$ Mt" *1erest
Joseph Stalin 'ies
Julius and *thel (osen$erg *6ecuted #or *spionage
1954
Britain Sponsors an *6pedition to Search #or the &$omina$le Sno7man
First &tomic Su$marine 8aunched
(eport Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer
(oger Bannister Brea2s the Four9Minute Mile
Segregation (uled Illegal in !"S"
1955
'isneyland Opens
*mmett Till Murdered
James 'ean 'ies in Car &ccident
Mc'onald:s Corporation Founded
(osa Par2s (e#uses to +i1e !p er Seat on a Bus
Warsa7 Pact Signed
1956
*l1is +yrates on *d Sulli1an:s Sho7
+race Kelly Marries Prince (ainier III o# Monaco
ungarian (e1olution
Khrushche1 'enounces Stalin
Sue3 Crisis
T"%" (emote Control In1ented
%elcro Introduced
1957
'r" Seuss Pu$lishes The Cat in the Hat
*uropean *conomic Community *sta$lished
So1iet Satellite Sputnik 8aunches Space &ge
8ai2a Becomes the First 8i1ing &nimal to *nter Or$it
1958
Boris Pasterna2 (e#uses 5o$el Pri3e
Chinese 8eader Mao ;edong 8aunches the "+reat 8eap For7ard"
ope 'iamond is 'onated to the Smithsonian
ula oops Become Popular
8*+O Toy Bric2s First Introduced
5&S& Founded
Peace Sym$ol Created
1959
Castro Becomes 'ictator o# Cu$a
International Treaty Ma2es &ntarctica Scienti#ic Preser1e
Kitchen 'e$ate Bet7een 5i6on and Khrushche1
The Sound of Music Opens on Broad7ay
!"S" 4ui3 Sho7s Found to $e Fi6ed