1947 - 1960
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| Secretary of State who orchestrated plan for European recovery after WWII | Marshall | becomes first black in professional baseball | Robinson | reverses many gains made by workers | Taft-Hartley Act
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| coined the term "Cold War" | Baruch | earned Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men | Warren | publishes Crusade in Europe | Eisenhower
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| breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 aircraft | Yeager | blacklisted for alleged sympathies with Communism | 10 Hollywood people | top boooks published in 1947 | A Streetcar Named Desire (Willilams) The Naked and the Dead (Mailer)
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| Won first Tony for Actor | Ferrar | US must "support free peoples who a re resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures." | The Truman Doctrine | new country US supported | Israel
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| Michener fiction that won pulitzer in 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | lead to teh US led Berlin airlift | USSR blockade of Berlin | became president of Columbia University | Eisenhower
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| first elected woman senatore | Smith of Maine | won 1948 election, defeating Dewey, Thurmond and Wallace | Truman | Truman's VP | Barkley
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| erroneous headline in 1948 election | Dewey Defeats Truman | accused of passing documents to Whitaker Chamers via a pumpkin patch in Maryland | Hiss | indicted for perjury | Hiss
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| vehicle by which Nixon becomes nationally known | Hiss case | won 1948 Nobel Prize in literature | Eliot | convicted of treason for radio broadcasts on behalf of Japanese during WWII | Tokyo Rose
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| created by the ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty | NATO | won Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 | Miller's Death of a Salesman | Won 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature | Faulkner
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| North Korean forces invade across the 38th parallel beginning... | the Korean War | named commander of the UN forces in Korea | MacArthur | whose forces fight at Inchon and re-capture Seoul and take Pyongyang | UN forces
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| begins witch hunt for Communists in US government and private life with well-circulated lists of "subversives" | McCarthy | awarded Nobel Prize for his efforts at mediating between Israel & Arab States | Bunche | first Black American to win Nobel Prize | Bunche
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| tried to assassinate Truman outside Blair House in DC | two Puerto Rican nationalists | Truman recalled him as head of UN forces | MacArthur | "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" | MacArthur
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| sentenced to death for selling atomic secrets to the USSR | Rosenbergs | limits president to two terms | 22nd Amendements | heads Senate Crime Investigation Committee into organized crime | Kefauver
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| publishes Catcher in the Rye | Salinger | where US detonates first hydrogen bom | Eniwetok Atoll | signed at Panmunjon, | Truce between UN and North Korea
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| hits "shot heard round the world" in National League playoffs | Thomson | wins the Pulitzer Prize for "The Caine Mutiny" | Wouk | staves off attempts to throw him off Republican VP nomination with famed "Checkers" spech | Nixon
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| defeats Stevenson to become 34th US President | Eisenhower | Eisenhower's VP | Nixon | wins Pulizer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea" | Hemingway
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| wins Nobel Peace Prize for "The Marshall Plan" | Marshall | cites potential of "The Domino Effect" of Asian nations falling under the aegis of Communism | Eisenhower | Defeated at Dien Bien Phu leading to increased US presence in French Indochina | French
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| licenses vaccine against poliomyelitis | Salk | fire 25 shots from teh spectators' gallery of House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen | Puerto Rican nationalists | wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Spirit of St. Louis" | Lindbergh
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| authorizes establishment of US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs | Eisenhower | First atomic-powered submarine | Nautilus | separate but equal is unconstitutional | Brown v Board of Education
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| argues case for Brown | Thurgood Marshall | voted to condemn McCarthy for his witch-hunt tactics | Senate | wins Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 | Hemingway
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| Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Pauling | Eight nations established this | SEATO | Sent military to South Vietnam | US
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| Ushered in Rock and Roll | Bill Haley and the Comets | Investigated the nature if the chemical bond | Pauling | South Eastern Asian Treaty Organization | SEATO
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| "Rock Around the Clock" | Bill Haley and the Comets | Took seat at the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama | Parks | began Montgomery Bus Boycott | Parks
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| formed when the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge | AFL-CIO | president of the AFL-CIO | Meany | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Williams
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| policy of following a dangerous course of action that could lead to war in the attempt to preserve peach | policy of Brinksmanship | novel about the notorious Confederate CIvil War prison; won Pulitzer for Fiction | Kantor | The DIary of Ann Frank; won Pulitzer for Drama | Goodrich and Hackett
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| Top musical on Broadway in 1956; My Fair Lady written by | Shaw | musical version of Pygmalion | My Fair Lady | sinks off Nantucket after colliding with the Swedish vessel Stockholm; 50 die | Andrea Doria
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| marries Prince Ranier III of Monaco | Grace Kelly | esbalishes himself as the King of Rock and Roll with hits like "Don't be Cruel" "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Blue Suede Shoes" | Presley | winds second term in office over Stevenson | Eisenhower
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| pitches a perfect game in 1956 World Series as Yankees win over Dodgers | Larsen | first Black female to win Winbledon Tennis title | Gibson | wins Pulitzer Prize for history for "Profiles in Courage" | JFK
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| drama Pulitzer in 1957 for Long Day's Journey Into Night | O'Neill | orders 10,000 Arkansas National Guardsmen inot LIttle Rock to protect blacks in integration of Central High School; | Eisenhouser | tries to stop integration | Governor Faubus
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| West Side Story | Bernstein & Sondheim | leads to US frenzy to outpace the Soviests in advanced technology | Soviet launch of Sputnik | sends 5,000 US tropps into Lebanon | Eisenhower
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| goes from Alaska to Norway under the Polar Ice Cap in under four days | Nautilus | first American satellite | Explorer I | Zone of radiation around earth is discovered by US satellites and is named for | Van Allen
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| Sandburg addresses Congress on this | 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth | die in an airplane crash in Iowa in 1959 | Buddy Holly, Big Bopper & Richie Valens | help open the St. Lawrence Seaway | Queen Elizabeth & Eisenhower
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| bans DH Lawrence's Lady Catterly's Lover from postal system as too obscene | US Postmaster | have famous Moscow "Kitchen Debate" | Nixon & Khruschev | biggest box office smash of year ans win eleven Academy Awards in 1960 | Ben-Hur
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| based on novel by Union General Lew Wallace | Ben-Hur | enters Union as 49th Sate | Alaska | 50th state | Hawaii
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| first nuclear-powered merchant ship | The Savannah | circumnavigates teh globe under water | Triton | proposed Paris summit between them is scrapped | Eisenhower & Khruschev
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| why summit is scrapped | Powers is shot down over the USSR in an American U2 spy plane | becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier | Enterprise | wins Gold Medal in boxing at Rome Summer Olympics | Cassius Clay
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| square off in the first televised presidential debate | JFK & Nixon | 35th president & first Roman Catholic President | JFK | JFK's VP | Johnson
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| reaches the bottom of the Marianas Trench in bathyscaphe Trieste | Piccard | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank)
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