The craziest thing that happened in the 1950s wasn't Elvis rising to fame. It wasn't the rise of Disneyland or even McDonald's during THE GOLDEN-FIFTIES. It wasn't even the formation of NASA. But NASA is a pretty big problem too. But there's something much more tyrannical out there than NASA and that would be the Military-Industrial Complex.
It was in a way the aftermath or the unresolved collateral damage caused partly by both the USSR and the USA who signed the The Declaration of United Nations back in 1942. I would argue that America was partly in conflict with Russia for forty decades to 1991 because of the contract they both were signed onto with the United Nations. Now, I'm not going to say there weren't other factors regarding The Cold War which spanned from 1947 to 1991.
Apart from the Cold War, Americans were bouncing back from World War II. Soldiers came back and got busy with their hunnies. They made a bunch of babies. Thus the rise of the Baby Boomers starting as early as 1945 according to some. The Roaring-Fifties mirrored the Roaring-Twenties in some ways economically and perhaps culturally as well.
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February 15 - Walt Disney releases his 12th animated film, Cinderella, in Hollywood.
June 27 – Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman orders American military forces to aid in the defense of South Korea.
September 30 – NSC 68 is approved by President Truman, setting U.S. foreign policy for the next 20 years.
In 1951, approximately, an 18-year-old sailor is fined for kissing in public in Stockholm, Sweden. The law court calls his actions "obnoxious behavior repulsive to the public morals."
March 2 – The first NBA All-Star Game of basketball is played in the Boston Garden.
September 9 – Chinese Communist forces move into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
October 24 – U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany. That is approximately six years after the end of the second world war which ended in 1945.
December 6 – A state of emergency is declared in Egypt, due to increasing riots.
On February 6, 1952, Britain's Princess Elizabeth took over the responsibility of ruling England at age 25 after the death of her father, King George VI. She would be officially crowned Queen Elizabeth II the next year. From December 5th to the 9th, Londoners suffered through the Great Smog of 1952, a severe air pollution event that caused deaths from breathing issues numbering in the thousands.
June 15 – Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is published in English-language translation.
August 14 – West Germany joins the IMF and the World Bank.
February 5 – Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres.
February 28 - James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
March 1 - Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke, after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, and Nikita Khrushchev. The stroke paralyzes the right side of his body and renders him unconscious until his death on March 5. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died of a cerebral hemorrhage on March 5 in Kutsevo Dacha, and on June 19, Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair for conspiracy to commit espionage.
April 13 - Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the United Kingdom.
May 29 – 1953 British Mount Everest expedition: Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
June 2 – Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, at Westminster Abbey.
In 1954, in South Vietnam, the Viet Minh is reorganised into the Viet Cong.
January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM.
June 17 – A CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala.
July 29 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings, is published.
August 1 – The First Indochina War (1946-1954) ends with the Vietnam People's Army in North Vietnam, the Vietnamese National Army in South Vietnam, the Kingdom of Cambodia in Cambodia, and the Kingdom of Laos in Laos, emerging victorious against the French Army.
1 November 1954 – 19 March 1962 - Algerian War
December 4 – The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida.
January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa, AKA Taiwan or The Republic of China or ROC) from the People's Republic of China.
June 16 – Lady and the Tramp, the Walt Disney company's 15th animated film, premieres in Chicago.
July 17 - Disneyland Park opened, the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, the only theme park designed and built by Walt Disney himself.
October 2 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on the CBS TV network in the United States.
October 3 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on the ABC-TV network in the United States.
February 22 – Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
May 2 - The United Methodist Church in America decides, at its General Conference, to grant women full ordained clergy status. It also calls for an end to racial segregation in the denomination.
June 29 - Actress Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller, in White Plains, New York.
July 13 – John McCarthy (Dartmouth), Marvin Minsky (MIT), Claude Shannon (Bell Labs) and Nathaniel Rochester (IBM) assemble the first coordinated research meeting on the topic of artificial intelligence, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States.
September 9 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show in the United States for the first time.
29 October 1956 - 7 November 1956 - Suez Crisis - Second Arab–Israeli war.
November 3 - MGM's film The Wizard of Oz is the first major Hollywood film running more than 90 minutes to be televised uncut in one evening, in the United States.
April – IBM sells the first compiler for the Fortran scientific programming language.
October 4 - launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik.
October 23 – Morocco begins its invasion of Ifni.
November 8 – The film Jailhouse Rock opens across the U.S. to reach #3, and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety.
Internationally, Chinese Leader Mao Tse-tung launched the "Great Leap Forward," a failed five-year economic and social effort that led to millions of deaths and was abandoned by 1961. This reminds me of The Great Reset, Agenda 2030, the plan to depopulate seven billion humans or more as soon as possible in the 2020s to the extent they can get away with it depending on how much of it we tolerate and put up with.
March 24 – The U.S. Army inducts Elvis Presley as U.S. Private #53310761.
May 22 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first American elected official to be broadcast on color television.
July 29 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the act establishing the The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
August 25 – Instant noodles go on sale for the first time in Japan.
September 30 – The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.
November 20 – The Jim Henson Company is founded as Muppets, Inc. in the United States.
In 1959, the first known human with HIV dies in the Congo.
On the first day of 1959, Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution, became the dictator of Cuba.
January 29 – Walt Disney releases his 16th animated film, Sleeping Beauty in Beverly Hills. It is Disney's first animated film to be shown in 70mm and modern 6-track stereophonic sound.
February 13 – TAT-2, AT&T's second transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation.
June 14 - Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
July 24 - Kitchen Debate between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, one of a series of impromptu discussions between the two.
August 4 – Martial law is declared in Laos.
November 19 – The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is first broadcast. The cartoon was shown on ABC at 5:30 each afternoon and was originally called Rocky and His Friends, although Bullwinkle soon became more popular than Rocky.
