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The 1950s in America

Table of Contents

Abstract expressionism




Academy Awards




Dean Acheson




Actors Studio




Sherman Adams




The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet




The Adventures of Superman




Advertising




Affluence and the new consumerism




The Affluent Society




AFL-CIO merger




African Americans




Agriculture in Canada




Agriculture in the United States




Alvin Ailey, Jr.




Air pollution




Aircraft design and development




Alaska statehood




American Bandstand




American Dream




Amos and Andy




Andrea Doria sinking




Antarctic Treaty of 1959




Archaeology




Architecture




Richard Armour




Army-McCarthy hearings




Around the World in Eighty Days




Art movements




Asian Americans




Asian flu epidemic




Astronomy




Atlas Shrugged




Atomic bomb




Atomic Energy Act of 1954




Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd.




Automobiles and auto manufacturing




Avro Arrow




B-52 bomber




Baby boomers




Ernie Banks




Barbie dolls




Brigitte Bardot




Alben W. Barkley




Baseball




Baseball’s exemption from antitrust laws




Basketball




Basketball point-shaving scandal




Beat generation




Harry Belafonte




Saul Bellow




Bell’s swim across Lake Ontario




Ben-Hur




Bennington explosion




Milton Berle




Leonard Bernstein




Chuck Berry




Betty Crocker cookbooks




Birth control




Blackboard Jungle




Boeing 707




Bolling v. Sharpe




Bomb shelters




Book publishing




Pat Boone




Don Bowden




Chester Bowles




Bowling




Bracero program




Omar Bradley




Marlon Brando




Brinkmanship




Brink’s robbery




British Empire Games




Broadway musicals




Jim Brown




Brown v. Board of Education




Dave Brubeck




Ralph Bunche




William Burroughs




Business and the economy in Canada




Business and the economy in the United States




Sid Caesar




California’s Alien Land Laws




Roy Campanella




Canada and Great Britain




Canada and U.S. investments




Canada as a middle power




Canadian Broadcasting Corporation




Canadian Labour Congress




Canadian regionalism




Cancer




Al Capp




Captain Kangaroo




Captain Video




Dale Carnegie




Fidel Castro




Cat on a Hot Tin Roof




The Catcher in the Rye




Celler-Kefauver Act of 1950




Censorship




Central Intelligence Agency




Wilt Chamberlain




Chevrolet Corvette




Chiang Kai-shek




China




Chrysler autoworkers strike




The Cisco Kid




Civil defense programs




Civil Rights movement




Van Cliburn




Montgomery Clift




Cold War




Nat King Cole




Comic books




Commission on Civil Rights




Communications in Canada




Communications in the United States




Communist Party of the U.S.A.




Computers




Confidential




Culture of conformity




U.S. Congress




Congress of Racial Equality




Maureen Connolly




Olga Connolly




Conservatism in U.S. politics




Continentalism




Sam Cooke




Gregory Corso




Bob Cousy




Creature from the Black Lagoon




Cuban Revolution




Cyclotron




Damn Yankees




Popular dance




Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.




Sammy Davis, Jr.




Davy Crockett




Doris Day




The Day the Earth Stood Still




James Dean




Willem de Kooning




Demographics of Canada




Demographics of the United States




Dennis v. United States




Destination Moon




DEW Line




Diamond synthesizing




Bo Diddley




John G. Diefenbaker




Charles C. Diggs, Jr.




Joe DiMaggio




Disarmament movement




Disneyland




DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)




Dodgers and Giants relocation




Fats Domino




Dragnet




Drive-in theaters




John Foster Dulles




DuMont network




Edsel




Education in Canada




Education in the United States




Albert Einstein




Dwight D. Eisenhower




Eisenhower Doctrine




Eisenhower’s heart attack




Elections in Canada




Midterm elections in the United States




1952 Elections in the United States




1956 Elections in the United States




T. S. Eliot




Elizabeth II’s coronation




Elizabeth II’s visit to North America




Emmy Awards




ENIAC computer




Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954




Explorer I




Fads




Fahrenheit 451




Famous Artists School




Farm subsidies




Fashions and clothing




Fast-food restaurants




Father Knows Best




Orval Faubus




John Henry Faulk




Federal Aviation Administration




Federal Bureau of Investigation




Lawrence Ferlinghetti




Film in Canada




Film in the United States




Ella Fitzgerald




Flying saucers




Food for Peace




Football




Forbidden Planet




Ford Thunderbird




Foreign policy of Canada




Foreign policy of the United States




Formosa Resolution




FORTRAN




Stan Freberg




Alan Freed




From Here to Eternity




William M. Gaines




Gallup polls




General Motors




Genetics




Geneva Summit Conference




Gentlemen Prefer Blondes




Geodesic dome




Germany’s postwar occupation




G.I. Bill




Giant




Althea Gibson




Allen Ginsberg




George Gobel




God and Man at Yale




God’s Country and Mine




The Goldbergs




Harry Golden




Golf




Pancho Gonzales




Charles Goren




Billy Graham




Grand Canyon airliner collision




Great Books movement




José Greco




Gross national product of Canada




Gross national product of the United States




Guatemala invasion




Guggenheim Museum




Gunsmoke




John Gunther




Hairstyles




Bill Haley




Harlem Globetrotters




Hawaii statehood




Health care systems in Canada




Health care systems in the United States




Department of Health, Education, and Welfare




Hearing aids




Ernest Hemingway




Herblock




Hernández v. Texas




John Hersey




Hitchcock films




Hockey




Jimmy Hoffa




Ben Hogan




Holiday Inn




Buddy Holly




Home appliances




Home furnishings




Homosexuality and gay rights




The Honeymooners




Hoof-and-mouth epidemic




J. Edgar Hoover




Hoover Commission




Bob Hope




House Committee on Un-American Activities




Housing in Canada




Housing in the United States




Howdy Doody Show




Rock Hudson




Human growth hormone




Hungarian revolt




Hydrogen bomb




I Led Three Lives




I Love Lucy




Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952




Immigration to Canada




Immigration to the United States




“In God We Trust” on U.S. currency




Inco strike




Income and wages in Canada




Income and wages in the United States




Indian Act of 1951




Inflation in Canada




Inflation in the United States




Inherit the Wind




Instant photography




Institute of Pacific Relations




Internal Security Act of 1950




International Business Machines Corporation




International Geophysical Year




International trade of Canada




International trade of the United States




Interracial marriage laws




Interstate highway system




Invasion of the Body Snatchers




Inventions




Invisible Man




Isolationism




Israel




I’ve Got a Secret




Japan




Jazz




Jewish Americans




John Birch Society




Jasper Johns




Christine Jorgensen




Elia Kazan




Estes Kefauver




Kefauver Committee




Grace Kelly




George F. Kennan




John F. Kennedy




Jack Kerouac




Khrushchev’s visit to the United States




Martin Luther King, Jr.




Kingston Trio




Kinsey Report




Franz Kline




Kon-Tiki




Tommy Kono




Korean War




Ernie Kovacs




Ray Kroc




Ku Klux Klan




Kukla, Fran and Ollie




Lady Chatterley’s Lover




Jack LaLanne




Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959




Larsen’s perfect game




Lassie




Latin America




Latinos




Leave It to Beaver




Lebanon occupation




Tom Lehrer




Levittown




Jerry Lee Lewis




John L. Lewis




Liberalism in U.S. politics




Life




Art Linkletter




Literature in Canada




Literature in the United States




Little Richard




Little Rock school desegregation crisis




Henry Cabot Lodge




Lolita




The Lone Ranger




The Lonely Crowd




Long Day’s Journey into Night




Long-playing records




Look




Look Back in Anger




“Louie Louie”




Loyalty oaths




Douglas MacArthur




Joseph McCarthy




Mary McCarthy




McClellan Committee




McDonald’s restaurants




Mackinac Bridge




Maclean’s




Marshall McLuhan




MAD magazine




The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit




The Man with the Golden Arm




Mickey Mantle




Rocky Marciano




George C. Marshall




Martin and Lewis




Groucho Marx




Bob Mathias




Maverick




Willie Mays




George Meany




Mercury space program




Mexico




James Michener




Mickey Mouse Club




Military conscription




Military-industrial complex




Arthur Miller




C. Wright Mills




Cardinal József Mindszenty




Minorities in Canada




Miss America pageants




Marilyn Monroe




Montgomery bus boycott




Wayne Morse




Motels




Robert Motherwell




Motorcycle gangs




Mr. Potato Head




Edward R. Murrow




Music




Mutual Broadcasting System scandal




My Fair Lady




Naked Lunch




National Aeronautics and Space Administration




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama




National Defense Education Act of 1958




Native Americans




Natural disasters




Natural resources




USS Nautilus




New York Yankees




Newport Jazz Festival




News magazines




Newspapers in Canada




Newspapers in the United States




Niagara Treaty




Nielsen ratings




Richard M. Nixon




Nixon’s “Checkers” speech




Nixon’s “kitchen debate”




Nixon’s Latin America tour




Nobel Prizes




North American Aerospace Defense Command




North Atlantic Treaty Organization




Al Oerter




Oklahoma football team




Olympic Games of 1952




Olympic Games of 1956




On the Beach




On the Road




On the Waterfront




Operation Wetback




Willie O’Ree




The Organization Man




Organization of American States




Organized crime




Vance Packard




Paint-by-numbers movement




Painters Eleven




Suzy Parker




Rosa Parks




Floyd Patterson




Linus Pauling




Pay television




Norman Vincent Peale




Peanuts




Drew Pearson




Lester B. Pearson




Perry Mason




Peter Pan




Oscar Peterson




Peyton Place




Photography




Photovoltaic cell




Playboy




Pledge of Allegiance




Pocho




Poetry




Pogo




Sidney Poitier




Polaris missiles




Polio




Jackson Pollock




Postage stamps




Ezra Pound




Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.




Presidential press conferences




Elvis Presley




Profiles in Courage




Puerto Rican nationalist attack on Congress




Puerto Rico as a commonwealth




Pulp magazines




Racial discrimination




Radio




Radio Free Europe




Railroad seizure




Rapid eye movement (REM)




Robert Rauschenberg




Sam Rayburn




Reader’s Digest




Ronald Reagan




Rebel Without a Cause




Recession of 1957-1958




Red Monday




Release time




Religion in Canada




Religion in the United States




Revised Standard Version of the Bible




Kenneth Rexroth




Ribonucleic acid (RNA)




Matthew B. Ridgway




Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus




Jackie Robinson




Sugar Ray Robinson




Rock and roll




Rock Around the Clock




Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals




Julius and Ethel Rosenberg




Roth v. United States




Carl T. Rowan




Gabrielle Roy




Mort Sahl




Louis St. Laurent




St. Lawrence Seaway




San Francisco Renaissance




Saturday Evening Post




Savannah




School desegregation




Science and technology




Scientology




Scrabble




The Sea Around Us




Glenn Seaborg




The Second Sex




Sergeant Preston of the Yukon




Rod Serling




Dr. Seuss




Sex and sex education




Fulton J. Sheen




Samuel Sheppard




Max Shulman




Silly Putty




Phil Silvers




Frank Sinatra




Sky King




Small Business Administration




Margaret Chase Smith




Smoking and tobacco




Sam Snead




Duke Snider




Soccer




Soil Bank Act of 1956




Southeast Asia Treaty Organization




Southern Christian Leadership Conference




Southern Manifesto




Space race




Mickey Spillane




Sports




Sports Illustrated




Sputnik I




Steel mill closure




Steelworkers strike




John Steinbeck




Casey Stengel




Adlai Stevenson




Igor Stravinsky




A Streetcar Named Desire




Suez Crisis




Ed Sullivan




Yma Sumac




Sunset Boulevard




Superconductivity research




U.S. Supreme Court decisions




Surfing and beach culture




Sweatt v. Painter




Elizabeth Taylor




Teamsters Union




Telephones




Television for children




Television game shows




Television in Canada




Television in the United States




Television soap operas




Television Westerns




Edward Teller




Tennis




Theater in Canada




Theater in the United States




The Thing from Another World




Danny Thomas




Bobby Thomson




3-D movies




Tidelands oil controversy




Till lynching




Tonight Show




Top 40 radio




Tranquilizer chlorpromazine




Trans-Canada Highway




Transistors




Tripartite Security Treaty




Trop v. Dulles




Harry S. Truman




Truman assassination attempt




Truman Doctrine




Dalton Trumbo




Tupperware




Turner-Stompanato scandal




TV dinners




TV Guide




Twenty-second Amendment




U-2 spy planes




The Ugly American




Unemployment in Canada




Unemployment in the United States




Unionism in Canada




Unionism in the United States




Johnny Unitas




United Fruit Company




United Nations




United States Air Force Academy




United States Information Agency




UNIVAC computer




Urbanization in Canada




Urbanization in the United States




Leon Uris




Ritchie Valens




Van Allen radiation belts




Immanuel Velikovsky




Veterans organizations




Vietnam




Fred M. Vinson




Volkswagen




Jersey Joe Walcott




War brides




War films




The War of the Worlds




Earl Warren




Warsaw Pact




Water pollution




James D. Watson




West Point honor code scandal




West Side Story




White Citizens’ Councils




Why Johnny Can’t Read




Wide-screen movies




The Wild One




Tennessee Williams




Edmund Wilson




Women and the roots of the feminist movement




Ed Wood




World Council of Churches convention




Herman Wouk




Yates v. United States




Frank Yerby




Loretta Young




Your Hit Parade




Youth culture and the generation gap




Academy Awards of the 1950’s




Best-Selling U.S. Books in the 1950’s




Bibliography




Emmy Awards of the 1950’s




Glossary of Popular Terminology of the 1950’s




Major Films of the 1950’s




Major Literary Awards in the 1950’s




Major Broadway Plays and Awards of the 1950’s




Time Line of the 1950’s in America




Web Sites




Most-Watched U.S. Television Shows of the 1950’s




Legislation: Major U.S. Legislation of the 1950’s




Legislation: U.S. Supreme Court Decisions of the 1950’s




Music: Popular Musicians of the 1950’s and Their Hits




Sports: Winners of Major Events in the 1950’s




Publisher’s Note




Abstract expressionism