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1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
1950 in American politics (3 C, 2 P) 1950s State of the Union addresses (11 P) 1951 in American politics (4 C, 3 P) 1952 in American politics (3 C, 4 P)
1950s political conferences (11 P) 1950s coups d'état and coup attempts (2 C, 38 P) E. 1950s elections (18 C) Pages in category "1950s political events"
American money and manufactured goods flooded into Europe, South Korea, and Japan and helped in their reconstruction. US manufacturing dominance would be almost unchallenged for a quarter-century after 1945. The American economy grew dramatically in the post-war period, expanding at a rate of 3.5% per year between 1945 and 1970.
1950s in American politics (12 C) Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (8 C, 73 P) Presidency of Harry S. Truman (8 C, 66 P) 1950s in Puerto Rico (13 C, 2 P) R.
GOBankingRates asked financial experts how to reclaim the middle-class dreams of the 1950s. Realizing the Dream Money management through budgeting, saving, investment and planning are essential to ...
January 21, 1950: Accused communist spy Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury; January 31, 1950: President Truman ordered the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949; June 27, 1950: Korean War: President Truman ordered American military forces to aid in the defense of South Korea
As the first post-war decade, the 1950s launched modern American popular culture and gave rise to some of the world's most coveted and valuable collectibles. Bill Ryze, a certified chartered ...