The 50s
- Nelson Mandela, African National Congress, and South Africa (1950s)
- John Vassall and The Cambridge Five (1950s)
- Women Defend the Nation - Federal Civil Defense Act (1950)
- Eric Matthew Gairy / Grenada Manual & Mental Workers Union (1950)
- The Rosenberg Trial (1950 - 1953)
- Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Witch Hunt (1950 - 1954)
- Edward R. Murrow vs. McCarthyism (1950 - 1954)
- The Baltic Sea Incident (April 8, 1950)
- Walter Ulbricht (1893 – 1973) General Secretary (1950 to 1971)
- Lodge Act (1951)
- Korean War (June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953)
- Sinking of the USS Hobson (April 26, 1952)
- Taiwan Crisis: 1st. & 2nd. (August 1, 1954 - January 1, 1959)
- Overthrow of the Iranian Government (1953)
- Georgy Malenkov (1902 - 1988) - Premier (1953)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 -1971) Premier (1953 - 1964)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) - President (1953 - 1961)
- Operation Ajax: CIA, Muhammad Mossadeq, and Shah of Iran (1953)
- The Berlin Tunnel (December 1953 - April 1956)
- KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopanosti (March 1954)
- The first Indochina War/Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam (March – May 1954)
- U.S. Involvement in Guatemala (June 1954)
- The early U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union (1955 - 1960)
- Bomber Gap (1955)
- Vietnam Conflict (1955 - 1975)
- The Launching of the USS Nautilus (January 17, 1955)
- The Warsaw Pact (May 1955)
- Ngo Dinh Diem (1901 - 1963), President, South Vietnam 1956 - 1963)
- Hungarian Revolution (October 23 - November 4, 1956)
- Suez Crisis (October 29, 1956 - November 6, 1956)
- Sputnik (October 4, 1957)
- Missile Gap (1957 - 1960)
- The Pershing Missile System (1957 - 1991)
- Beirut (1958)
- Berlin Crisis (1958 - 1962)
- The Cuban Revolution (January 1, 1959)
- Fidel Castro (August 13, 1926 - , President, Cuba 1959 - 2007)
- 1950 Links
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