Decades Project 1950’s
Karen Granado
Key Political Figures
 Harry S. Truman (president)
 Dwight D. Eisenhower (president)
Trends and Fads
 Men: Grey Fennel Suits
 Women: Dresses with pinched waists & heels
 Drive-In movies
Speeches or Quotes for Influential
People
 Richard Nixon “Checkers”
 Dwight Eisenhower “Atoms for Peace”
 William Faulkner's Nobel Prize
 Nikita Khrushchev “The Cult of The Individual”
Popular Entertainment or
Entertainers
 Grace Kelly
 Marlene Dietrich
 James Stewart
 Kim Novak
 Doris Day
 Marilyn Monroe
 John Wayne
 Lucille Ball
 Thelma Ritter
 Deborah Kerr
Popular Music
 Rock around The Clock (Bill Haley & His Comets)
 Put Your Head on My Shoulder (Paul Anka)
 School Day (Chuck Berry)
 Oh Boy! (Buddy Holly)
 Rockin Robin (Bobby Day)
Important Sports Figures or
Happenings
 Happenings:
 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
 1950 World Cup hosted by Brazil.
 Sport Figures:
 Henry Aaron
 Alberto Ascari
 Roger Bannister
 Yogi Berra
 Jim Brown
Art Movement
 In the early 1950s Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were
enormously influential. In the late 1950s Barnett Newman and
Mark Rothko's paintings became more focused on the next
generation.
Scientists or Inventors
 Inventors:
 Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena
 George Cayley
 Francis Crick
 James Watson
Significant Historical Events
 The Postwar booms
 Moving to the Suburbs
 The Civil Rights Movement
 The Cold War
Important Businesses or Industries
 It was during the post war. Every man was fighting in the war
while the women would work in the factors.
War or Military Conflicts
 Korean War
 U.S President Truman orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb.
Videos
 http://youtu.be/_3kwSrJn7Og
History Timeline
1950
1951
Credit
cards were
made
Color TV
was
introduce
d
1952
Car
seatbelts
were
invented
1953
1954
1955
DNA
Discovere
d
First
atomic
submarine
was
launched
Disneylan
d opens
1956
1957
TV
Remote
control is
invented.
Fortran
was
invented
1958
Hula hoop
was
invented
1959
Barbie
doll was
invented
Then and Now
1950’s
2013
Gas Prices
$0.26
$3.50
Bread
$0.14
$2.00
Milk
$0.17
$2.00
Eggs
$0.79
$1.75
Movie Ticket
$0.25 (for kids) &
$0.50 (for adults)
$5.00 (for kids)
$7.00 (for adults)
Music
$0.05 (for 1 song) &
$0.10 (for 2 songs)
$0.25 (for 5 songs)
$1.99
High School
Graduation
Requirements
Post war period.
22 credits to
graduate
Work Citied
 http://ffamousnetwork.blogspot.com
 http://history1900s.about.com
 http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu
 www.history.com
 http://timerime.com