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1950 in American politics (4 C, 2 P) 1951 in American politics (4 C, 3 P) 1952 in American politics (4 C, 4 P) 1953 in American politics (4 C, 7 P)
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.
September 24 – Alan Colmes, TV/radio host and political commentator (d. 2017) September 28 Christina Hoff Sommers, author and philosopher [16] John Sayles, director and screenwriter; September 29 – Leroy Jones, American footballer (d. 2021) [17] October 3 Pamela Hensley, actress; Phyllis Nelson, singer-songwriter (d. 1998)
New Politics was a term used in the United States in the 1950s to denote the ascending ideology of that country's Democratic Party during that decade. It is strongly identified with Adlai Stevenson, the party's unsuccessful candidate for president in both 1952 and 1956; in each case, Stevenson lost to Republican Dwight Eisenhower.
An American family watching television together in 1958. The 1950s are known as the Golden Age of Television by some people. Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts.
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.
The 1950 United States Senate elections occurred in the middle of Harry S. Truman's second term as president. The 32 seats of Class 3 were contested in regular elections, and four special elections were held to fill vacancies. As with most 20th-century second-term midterms, the party not holding the presidency made significant gains.