Interactive Timeline – 1950-1959

correct incorrect Jan Klaus Fuchs confesses as Soviet spy

correct incorrect Feb Joseph McCarthy announces list of Communists in U.S. State Department

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jun North Korea invades South Korea, initiating Korean War

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Coca-Cola completes sixtieth international bottling plant

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Puerto Rican National Party stages uprising

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov Chinese forces enter Korea

correct incorrect Jan Nuclear testing begins at Nevada test site

correct incorrect Feb 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug United States Information Agency (USIA) created to coordinate efforts to reach developing nations with pro-U.S. programming

correct incorrect Jun National Security Council memo 124/2 outlines "domino theory" in Southeast Asia

correct incorrect Jul The New York Post reports questionable contribution to Richard Nixon's California campaign funds

correct incorrect Nov Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson for U.S. presidency

correct incorrect Nov President Eisenhower travels to Korea

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov United States detonates first hydrogen bomb "Mike" on the Eniwetok Islands in South Pacific

correct incorrect Mar Jonas Salk announces first successful polio vaccine

correct incorrect Jun Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Death of Joseph Stalin

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Cease-fire achieved; DMZ is created at Panmunjom, Korea

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Partition of Vietnam into North and South at Geneva Conference

correct incorrect THE WORLD: La Hora de Jaudi Dudi premieres in Cuba

correct incorrect Jan Hernandez v. Texas

correct incorrect Mar Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow attacks Joseph McCarthy on See It Now

correct incorrect Apr President Eisenhower delivers "domino theory" speech

correct incorrect Apr–Jun U.S. Army and the McCarthy hearings

correct incorrect May Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (KS) decision

correct incorrect Jun "Under God" is added to U.S. Pledge of Allegiance

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May French defeated at Battle of Dien Bien Phu

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Mexican government works with United States to repatriate migrant workers under "Operation Wetback"

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North and South

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Algerian War for Independence begins

correct incorrect Feb U.S. president Eisenhower sends first military advisors to South Vietnam

correct incorrect Apr Polio vaccine is introduced to public

correct incorrect Aug Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi

correct incorrect Dec Rosa Parks is arrested, marking beginning of Montgomery Bus Boycott

correct incorrect Dec GM becomes first U.S. company to make over $1 billion in a single year

correct incorrect Jun Federal Highway Act is enacted

correct incorrect Jul Congress authorizes "In God We Trust" as national motto

correct incorrect Nov Eisenhower reelected as U.S. president

correct incorrect Dec Montgomery Bus Boycott ends

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Egypt nationalizes Suez Canal

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov Hungary revolts against Soviet rule

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Britain, France, and Israel launch military attacks against Egypt

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Dec Britain and France withdraw troops from Suez

correct incorrect Jan Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) founded

correct incorrect Apr Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" seized by U.S. Customs officials on grounds of obscenity

correct incorrect Sep Jack Kerouac's On the Road released

correct incorrect Sep Little Rock's Central High School desegregated

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul International Geophysical Year begins hopeful cooperation between 67 countries on range of science and technology development

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Soviets successfully launch Sputnik

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of Soviet Union

correct incorrect Aug Hawaii becomes 50th U.S. state

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Nixon and Khrushchev's "Kitchen Debate" at Soviet National Exhibition

correct incorrect THE WORLD: "Radio Free Dixie" broadcasts in Cuba to promote pan-African civil rights

correct incorrect THE WORLD: By end of year, 37 developing world nations achieve independence