
Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 |} ---- ==Events and trends== The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning GIs who went to college under the Montgomery GI Bill and settled in Suburbia America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlier decades like women's rights, civil rights, imperialism, and war were relatively suppressed or neglected during this time as a returning world from the brink hoped to see a more consistent way of life as opposed to liberalism and radicalism. The effect of suppressing social problems in the 50s would backfire in the 60s with the counter-culture movement. The 1950s were also marked with a rapid rise in conflict with the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union that would heighten the Cold War to an unprecedented level which would include the Arms Race, Space Race, McCarthyism, and Korean War. The rise of Suburbia as well as the growing conflict with the East are the two generally accepted reasons for the Conservatifve domination of this decade. ===Technology=== * United States tests the first fusion bomb. ''See'' History of nuclear weapons * Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, and thus the Sputnik crisis * The De Havilland Comet enters service as the world's first jet airliner * Charles Townes builds a maser in 1953 at Columbia University. ===Science=== * Miller experiment shows that under simulated conditions resembling those thought to have existed shortly after Earth first accreted, many of the basic organic molecules that form the building blocks of modern life are able to spontaneously form * Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the helical structure of DNA at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge * Bruce C. Heezen discovers the Mid-Atlantic Ridge * Polio vaccine ===War, peace, and politics=== * Korean War * Red Scare, Joseph McCarthy * Suez Crisis * European European Union founded. * Warsaw pact founded. * Most aboveground nuclear test explosions happened during this decade. * The United States CIA Operation PBSUCCESS the overthrow of the Guatemala government. * Hungary Hungarian Revolution, 1956 brutally suppressed by Soviet Union's troops. * Fidel Castro gains power in Cuba. * Mahmoud Abbas becomes involved in Palestinian politics in Qatar. * Decolonization: Algerian War of Independence, First Indochina War, and elsewhere. * Early history of the History of the People's Republic of China, of the state of History of Israel, and of the History of Indonesia. ===Economics=== * "Economic miracle" in West Germany. ===Culture, religion=== * Brylcreem and other hair tonics have a period of popularity * Television replaces radio as the dominant mass medium in industrialized countries. * In the West, the generation traumatized by the Great Depression and World War II creates a culture with emphasis on normality and calm conformity. * Juvenile delinquency said to be at unprecedented epidemic proportions in United States * Traditional pop music reaches its climax; early rock and roll music embraced by teenagers/youth culture while generally dismissed or condemned by older generation. * Beatnik culture/ ''The Beat generation'' * Optimistic visions of semi-Utopian technological future including such devices as the flying car. * ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' hits movie theaters. * Along with the appearance of the sentence ''Kilroy was here'' across the United States, graffiti as an art form develops, especially among urban African Americans; graffiti eventually becomes one of the four elements of hip hop * The Catcher in the Rye * The Twilight Zone premiers as the first major science-fiction show. ===Others=== * Wartime rationing ends in the United Kingdom ==People== ===World leaders=== * Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (Canada) * Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (Canada) * Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China) * President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan) * President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) * Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India) * Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel) * Emperor Hirohito (Japan) * Pope Pius XII * Pope John XXIII * Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach Sean Lemass (Republic of Ireland) * Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) * Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Union) * King George VI of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) * Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia) * President Harry S. Truman (United States) * Prime Minister George Borg Olivier (Malta) * President Dwight D. Eisenhower (United States) * Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (West Germany) * President Josip Broz Tito (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) ===Entertainers=== * Abbott and Costello * Paul Anka * Jack Benny * Chuck Berry * Humphrey Bogart * Marlon Brando * James Dean * Bo Diddley * Ava Gardner * The Goons * Cary Grant * Tony Hancock * Audrey Hepburn * Charlton Heston * Alfred Hitchcock * Buddy Holly * Ernie Kovacs * Jerry Lewis * Dean Martin * Groucho Marx * Marilyn Monroe * Paul Newman * Laurence Olivier * Elvis Presley * Little Richard * James Stewart (actor) * Gale Storm * Jerry Lee Lewis * Jacques Tati * Elizabeth Taylor * John Wayne * Jack Webb ===Sports figures=== * Alberto Ascari (Italian motor racing) * Roger Bannister (English athletics) * Yogi Berra (U.S. baseball player) * Maureen Connolly (U.S. tennis player) * Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentinian motor racing) * Gordie Howe (Canadian ice hockey player) * Rocky Marciano (U.S. boxing) * Stanley Matthews (English soccer player) * Willie Mays (U.S. baseball player) * Ferenc Puskás (Hungarian soccer player) * Maurice Richard (Canadian ice hockey player) * Sugar Ray Robinson (U.S. boxing) * Bill Russell (basketball) (U.S. basketball player) * Lev Yashin (Russian soccer player) ==See also== * United States in the 1950s * List of rock and roll albums in the 1950s ==External Links== * [http://www.fiftiesweb.com The FiftiesWeb] 1950s simple:1950s
i think that this page should show more about the distance between the young and the old and their different expectations and so on. i think this is a good idea because i have noone i know alive who was in the fifties so i want to know what it was like to be a teenager back then.- nick ---- ==Overview== The overview that was merged from the '''1950's''' article is written to make it seem that the 1950s only happened in the U.S.A. I've added a heading to that section to make it clear, but obviously a far better solution would be for someone who is on top the world-wide historical situation during this era to rewrite it. Do people think it would be better to ditch the section altogether in the meantime? I do like the idea of an overview, as the current decade pages are just lists. --User:Lancevortex 13:26, 27 May 2004 (UTC) How about adding sections "Europe in the 1950s", "East Asia in the 1950s", "South Asia in the 1950s", "Africa in the 1950s", "Latin America in the 1950s" and so forth? Also, a short overview paragraph of the decade from a global perspective... "The World in 1950s". I would be willing to take a stab at writing these. User:Arkuat 01:10, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC) : My preference would be for an overview of the world in the 1950s to go on this page, not split into regions, as many of the important events (for example, the Korean War) had global importance. That's just my opinion, though. It would be great if you were into writing this section, Arkuat! Another thing I would suggest is that the overview should be an analysis, and not just a list of events written in prose form --User:Lancevortex 09:08, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC) Okay, I agree that the world overview should come first and get the most text, in first draft anyway, but I think I would like to do a few regional overviews as well. User:Arkuat 22:57, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC) ==United States in the 1950s== It's my opinion that the 1950s entry should summarize major events, and contain links to entries for specific countries as and when they are written. Accordingly I've moved the United States in the 1950s section to its own entry and placed a link to this in a new "See also" section. Many countries had a very different experience of the 1950s from the one that pertained in the USA, but there are many US events that are generally regarded as having global significance because of the growth of a largely US-led popular culture and the growing power of the USA in foreign policy. I'm sure there will be some duplication between entries and this is okay in my opinion. It's an encyclopedia and articles should try to be reasonably self-contained.--User:Minority Report 23:59, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) I like this approach a lot better. The early articles (1950s) and (1950's), which were merged to form the basis of the old 1950's article, were admittedly written from a North American perspective (at least one of them, if not both, explicitly said so) because that was the only perspective that their early contriubutors and editors felt competent to give. As Wikipedia becomes more truly international and less U.S.-centric, this sort of thing will be necessitated more and more, which is a good thing.
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Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 |} ---- ==Events and trends== The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning GIs who went to college under the Montgomery GI Bill and settled in Suburbia America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlier decades like women's rights, civil rights, imperialism, and war were relatively suppressed or neglected during this time as a returning world from the brink hoped to see a more consistent way of life as opposed to liberalism and radicalism. The effect of suppressing social problems in the 50s would backfire in the 60s with the counter-culture movement. The 1950s were also marked with a rapid rise in conflict with the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union that would heighten the Cold War to an unprecedented level which would include the Arms Race, Space Race, McCarthyism, and Korean War. The rise of Suburbia as well as the growing conflict with the East are the two generally accepted reasons for the Conservatifve domination of this decade. ===Technology=== * United States tests the first fusion bomb. ''See'' History of nuclear weapons * Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, and thus the Sputnik crisis * The De Havilland Comet enters service as the world's first jet airliner * Charles Townes builds a maser in 1953 at Columbia University. ===Science=== * Miller experiment shows that under simulated conditions resembling those thought to have existed shortly after Earth first accreted, many of the basic organic molecules that form the building blocks of modern life are able to spontaneously form * Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the helical structure of DNA at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge * Bruce C. Heezen discovers the Mid-Atlantic Ridge * Polio vaccine ===War, peace, and politics=== * Korean War * Red Scare, Joseph McCarthy * Suez Crisis * European European Union founded. * Warsaw pact founded. * Most aboveground nuclear test explosions happened during this decade. * The United States CIA Operation PBSUCCESS the overthrow of the Guatemala government. * Hungary Hungarian Revolution, 1956 brutally suppressed by Soviet Union's troops. * Fidel Castro gains power in Cuba. * Mahmoud Abbas becomes involved in Palestinian politics in Qatar. * Decolonization: Algerian War of Independence, First Indochina War, and elsewhere. * Early history of the History of the People's Republic of China, of the state of History of Israel, and of the History of Indonesia. ===Economics=== * "Economic miracle" in West Germany. ===Culture, religion=== * Brylcreem and other hair tonics have a period of popularity * Television replaces radio as the dominant mass medium in industrialized countries. * In the West, the generation traumatized by the Great Depression and World War II creates a culture with emphasis on normality and calm conformity. * Juvenile delinquency said to be at unprecedented epidemic proportions in United States * Traditional pop music reaches its climax; early rock and roll music embraced by teenagers/youth culture while generally dismissed or condemned by older generation. * Beatnik culture/ ''The Beat generation'' * Optimistic visions of semi-Utopian technological future including such devices as the flying car. * ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' hits movie theaters. * Along with the appearance of the sentence ''Kilroy was here'' across the United States, graffiti as an art form develops, especially among urban African Americans; graffiti eventually becomes one of the four elements of hip hop * The Catcher in the Rye * The Twilight Zone premiers as the first major science-fiction show. ===Others=== * Wartime rationing ends in the United Kingdom ==People== ===World leaders=== * Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (Canada) * Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (Canada) * Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China) * President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan) * President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) * Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India) * Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel) * Emperor Hirohito (Japan) * Pope Pius XII * Pope John XXIII * Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Republic of Ireland) * Taoiseach Sean Lemass (Republic of Ireland) * Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) * Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Union) * King George VI of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) * Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia) * President Harry S. Truman (United States) * Prime Minister George Borg Olivier (Malta) * President Dwight D. Eisenhower (United States) * Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (West Germany) * President Josip Broz Tito (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) ===Entertainers=== * Abbott and Costello * Paul Anka * Jack Benny * Chuck Berry * Humphrey Bogart * Marlon Brando * James Dean * Bo Diddley * Ava Gardner * The Goons * Cary Grant * Tony Hancock * Audrey Hepburn * Charlton Heston * Alfred Hitchcock * Buddy Holly * Ernie Kovacs * Jerry Lewis * Dean Martin * Groucho Marx * Marilyn Monroe * Paul Newman * Laurence Olivier * Elvis Presley * Little Richard * James Stewart (actor) * Gale Storm * Jerry Lee Lewis * Jacques Tati * Elizabeth Taylor * John Wayne * Jack Webb ===Sports figures=== * Alberto Ascari (Italian motor racing) * Roger Bannister (English athletics) * Yogi Berra (U.S. baseball player) * Maureen Connolly (U.S. tennis player) * Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentinian motor racing) * Gordie Howe (Canadian ice hockey player) * Rocky Marciano (U.S. boxing) * Stanley Matthews (English soccer player) * Willie Mays (U.S. baseball player) * Ferenc Puskás (Hungarian soccer player) * Maurice Richard (Canadian ice hockey player) * Sugar Ray Robinson (U.S. boxing) * Bill Russell (basketball) (U.S. basketball player) * Lev Yashin (Russian soccer player) ==See also== * United States in the 1950s * List of rock and roll albums in the 1950s ==External Links== * [http://www.fiftiesweb.com The FiftiesWeb] 1950s simple:1950s
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i think that this page should show more about the distance between the young and the old and their different expectations and so on. i think this is a good idea because i have noone i know alive who was in the fifties so i want to know what it was like to be a teenager back then.- nick ---- ==Overview== The overview that was merged from the '''1950's''' article is written to make it seem that the 1950s only happened in the U.S.A. I've added a heading to that section to make it clear, but obviously a far better solution would be for someone who is on top the world-wide historical situation during this era to rewrite it. Do people think it would be better to ditch the section altogether in the meantime? I do like the idea of an overview, as the current decade pages are just lists. --User:Lancevortex 13:26, 27 May 2004 (UTC) How about adding sections "Europe in the 1950s", "East Asia in the 1950s", "South Asia in the 1950s", "Africa in the 1950s", "Latin America in the 1950s" and so forth? Also, a short overview paragraph of the decade from a global perspective... "The World in 1950s". I would be willing to take a stab at writing these. User:Arkuat 01:10, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC) : My preference would be for an overview of the world in the 1950s to go on this page, not split into regions, as many of the important events (for example, the Korean War) had global importance. That's just my opinion, though. It would be great if you were into writing this section, Arkuat! Another thing I would suggest is that the overview should be an analysis, and not just a list of events written in prose form --User:Lancevortex 09:08, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC) Okay, I agree that the world overview should come first and get the most text, in first draft anyway, but I think I would like to do a few regional overviews as well. User:Arkuat 22:57, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC) ==United States in the 1950s== It's my opinion that the 1950s entry should summarize major events, and contain links to entries for specific countries as and when they are written. Accordingly I've moved the United States in the 1950s section to its own entry and placed a link to this in a new "See also" section. Many countries had a very different experience of the 1950s from the one that pertained in the USA, but there are many US events that are generally regarded as having global significance because of the growth of a largely US-led popular culture and the growing power of the USA in foreign policy. I'm sure there will be some duplication between entries and this is okay in my opinion. It's an encyclopedia and articles should try to be reasonably self-contained.--User:Minority Report 23:59, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) I like this approach a lot better. The early articles (1950s) and (1950's), which were merged to form the basis of the old 1950's article, were admittedly written from a North American perspective (at least one of them, if not both, explicitly said so) because that was the only perspective that their early contriubutors and editors felt competent to give. As Wikipedia becomes more truly international and less U.S.-centric, this sort of thing will be necessitated more and more, which is a good thing.
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