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Dec 26, 2023 · Major Wars of the 1950s: Including the Korean war, Vietnam war, Suez War, Cold war, Hungarian Revolution, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Revolution, and more.
This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
StartedEndedName Of ConflictBelligerents ...(victorious Party (if Applicable))194519491945195019451949Chinese Civil War (second phase)Communist Party People's Republic of ...19451945- The Postwar Booms
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Historians use the word “boom” to describe a lot of things about the 1950s: the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called “baby boom.” This boom began in 1946, when a record number of babies–3.4 million–were born in the United States. About 4 million babies were born each year during the 1950s. In all, by the time the boom ...
The baby boom and the suburban boom went hand in hand. Almost as soon as World War II ended, developers such as William Levitt (whose “Levittowns” in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania would become the most famous symbols of suburban life in the 1950s) began to buy land on the outskirts of cities and use mass production techniques to build modes...
A growing group of Americans spoke out against inequality and injustice during the 1950s. African Americans had been fighting against racial discrimination for centuries; during the 1950s, however, the struggle against racism and segregation entered the mainstream of American life. For example, in 1954, in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education c...
The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, known as the Cold War, was another defining element of the 1950s. After World War II, Western leaders began to worry that the USSR had what one American diplomat called “expansive tendencies”; moreover, they believed that the spread of communism anywhere threatened democracy and capitalism...
In the 1950s, televisions became something the average family could afford, and by 1950 4.4 million U.S. families had one in their home. The Golden Age of Television was marked by family-friendly shows like I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Twilight Zone and Leave It To Beaver. In movie theaters, actors like John Wayne, James Stuart, Charlton Hest...
Elvis Presley. Sam Cooke. Chuck Berry. Fats Domino. Buddy Holly. The 1950s saw the emergence of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the new sound swept the nation. It helped inspire rockabilly music from Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. People swayed to The Platters and The Drifters. Music marketing, changed, too: For the first time, music began to target youth. On...
The booming prosperity of the 1950s helped to create a widespread sense of stability, contentment and consensus in the United States. However, that consensus was a fragile one, and it splintered for good during the tumultuous 1960s.
The Elvic Oracle. The New Yorker. 1950s Rock ‘n’ Roll. Rolling Stone. The Day The Music Died. Biography. The Fifties: The Way We Really Were. Douglas T. Miller and Marion Novak.
This is a list of wars ordered chronologically by the year that hostilities were initiated. (See also war; law of war; military technology; collective violence.) 1300–1200 bce
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
11 major wars include the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Indian Wars (which encompasses numerous armed conflicts), the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War (which encompasses the Korean War, and the Vietnam War), the Gulf War and the War on Terror ...
ConflictAlliesOpponent (s)Result For The United States And Its ...First Barbary War (1801–1805) Part of the ...United States [14] Sweden [14] Kingdom of ...Ottoman Tripolitania [15] Sultanate of ...US-allied victoryTecumseh's War (1810–1813) Part of the ...Tecumseh's Confederacy List Shawnee Red ...US victoryWar of 1812 (1812–1815) Location: Eastern ...United States Choctaw Nation Cherokee ...United Kingdom British North America The ...Inconclusive/Other Result Treaty of Ghent ...Creek War (1813–1814) Part of the ...United States Lower Creeks Cherokee ...US-allied victory Treaty of Fort JacksonOverview. In June 1950 communist North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States came to the aid of South Korea at the head of a United Nations force composed of more than a dozen countries. Communist China joined North Korea in the war in November 1950, unleashing a massive Chinese ground attack against American forces.
With both the United States and Soviet Union stockpiling nuclear weapons, fears of nuclear warfare pervaded American society and culture in the 1950s.
