Timeline


1950-Joesph McCarthy states that over 200 Communists are working in the State Department.
Communist North Korea invades Democratic South Korea.
1951-RosenBurgs are convivted of Espionage
1952-Peace negotiations for North and South Korea persist through out the year
1953-Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President
Joesph Stalin dies
1954-Supreme Court rules on Brown vs Board overturning Plessy vs Ferguson
1955-Polio vaccine is approved
December 1st Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus setting off the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1956-Eisenhower is elected for a second term.
Nikita Khrushchev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
1957-Integration at Little Rock, Arkansas
Soviets launch Sputnik
1958-January 31st the US launches Explorer 1
1959-Fidel Castro becomes dictator in Cuba
Alaska and Hawaii become states