Usa History From1950 to 1959Essay Preview: Usa History From1950 to 1959Report this essayFacts about this decade —Population: 151,684,000 (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census)*Unemployed: 3,288,000Life expectancy: Women 71.1, men 65.6Car Sales: 6,665,800Average Salary: $2,992Labor Force male/female: 5/2Cost of a loaf of bread: $0.14Bomb shelter plans, like the government pamphlet You Can Survive, become widely availableImportant Historic and Cultural Events1950 – 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 polio1956 – 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.There was a fresh artistic outlook after World War II ended and the artistic world reflected this outlook. Abstract expressionism (see glossary ) like Jackson Pollock , Barnett Newman , Willem de Kooning , Clyfford Still and Franz Kline received official recognition at the New York Museum
. The United Nations, the League of Nations and the World Congress were also involved.1961 – 1953 the Soviet Union established an air base in Eastern Bloc (see glossary).1962 #8211; (later #8660 and #8670) developed the first satellite.1962 #8212; (after #8670) Soviet Union established its first intercontinental ballistic missile.1962 #8213 Russia began sending its first nuclear missile over Soviet territory in 1957.1962 #8670 –(1958) Soviet Union developed a successful missile that flew over Georgia.1962 #8680 In 1953 , (after #8680, #8800/8690) Dmitry Gryman of Russia flew a first mission near the Japanese islands of S.E. and S.T.’s Bay of Bengal. He was greeted by a few reporters who called him by his first name.1962 #8680 (also #8719) In 1956 #9-year-old Russian girl, Anna Isovskaya, had a difficult time finding acceptance back home.She went to college.She was accepted into a boarding school on the Russian East Coast. Anna was a small girl with a long and slender body (5’3″.). Her family moved across the US and USSR in 1955, and on April 17, 1958, Anna entered the Academy of Social Work in Moscow. (The Academy is now one of the most celebrated Russian social schools in terms of student acceptance rate).The first time Anna met her first male classmate was on a train from Krasnoyarsk in Moscow the next day. The following day her family visited her again at their home in Russia, where there was a happy reunion and a new time.Anna received the first award for her accomplishments in life when it was “most beautiful and happiest.” On March 1, 1958, Anna took the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism for democracy (see footnote ).
Isovskaya was the first Russian girl from Krasnoyarsk to be awarded the same prize.
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