Elvis Presley. Sam Cooke. Chuck Berry. Fats Domino. Buddy Holly. The 1950s saw the emergence of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the new sound swept the nation. It helped inspire rockabilly music from Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. People swayed to The Platters and The Drifters. Music marketing, changed, too: For the first time, music b…
The Postwar Booms
Moving to The Suburbs
The Civil Rights Movement
The Cold War & The Korean War
1950s Pop Culture
Shaping The 1960s
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Historians use the word “boom” to describe a lot of things about the 1950s: the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called “baby boom.” This boom began in 1946, when a record number of babies–3.4 million–were born in the United States. About 4 million babies were born each yea…
• Cold War conflicts involving the influence of the rival superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States • Arab–Israeli conflict (from the early 20th century) • Suez Crisis (1956) – The Suez Crisis was a war fought on Egyptian territory in 1956. Following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956 by Gamal Abdel N…
A Brief Timeline of the 1950s ThoughtCo. / Hugo Lin By Jennifer Rosenberg Updated on March 05, 2020 The 1950s were the first full decade after the end of World War II and is remembered as a …
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.
May 27, 2020 · The period between 1946 and 1964, which spans the entire 1950s decade, is often called the “postwar era.” For many, it was a pleasant decade because World War II and the …
The president for many of these years was war hero Dwight Eisenhower. Ike, as he was nicknamed, walked a middle road between the two major parties. ... the 1950s were indeed …