Major events, inventions, fads, and everyday life of the 1950s.
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- Korean War started
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1950- Korean War ended
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1953- President inaugurated in 1953
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Dwight D. Eisenhower- Developer of the polio vaccine
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Jonas Salk- Structure discovered by Watson, Crick, and Franklin in 1953
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DNA (double helix)- School desegregation Supreme Court case of 1954
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Brown v. Board of Education- Historic bus boycott sparked in Montgomery in 1955
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Montgomery Bus Boycott- Theme park that opened in California in 1955
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Disneyland- Federal highway system that began in 1956
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Interstate Highway System- Soviet satellite launched in 1957
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Sputnik- Leader of the Cuban Revolution of 1959
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Fidel Castro- 49th US state, admitted in 1959
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Alaska- 50th US state, admitted in 1959
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Hawaii- British queen crowned in 1952
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Elizabeth II- Middle East crisis of 1956 involving the Suez Canal
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Suez Crisis
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