It is 50's at St. John Eudes !!!
The decade before brought World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, and the dawn of the atomic age; the decade after brought disaster in Vietnam and an explosive counterculture among young people in home.
But the 1950s? The Eisenhower era? Sandwiched in between some of the most dramatic periods in US history, it's easy to think of the Fifties as a bore, a time when very little happened in America.
But in reality the fifties were anything but a simple sleepy interlude in our history. With American and Soviet forces stockpiling H-bombs in preparation for a nuclear showdown, President Eisenhower had to negotiate the tensest decade of the Cold War. Many of the social tensions that would later erupt in the 1960s—especially over race and civil rights—were already moving into the forefront of America's social consciousness. And all the while, the era's widespread prosperity fundamentally reshaped the American way of life.
Fun Facts
1950
First Modern Credit Card Introduced
First Organ Transplant
First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
Korean War Begins
Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
1951
Color TV Introduced
South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race
Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII
1952
Car Seat Belts Introduced
The Great Smog of 1952
Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25
1953
DNA Discovered
First Playboy Magazine
Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest
Joseph Stalin Dies
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage1954First Atomic Submarine Launched
Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
1955
Disneyland Opens
Emmett Till Murdered
James Dean Dies in Car Accident
Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins
Ray Kroc Opens His First McDonald's
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
1956
Hungarian Revolution
T.V. Remote Control Invented
Velcro Introduced
But the 1950s? The Eisenhower era? Sandwiched in between some of the most dramatic periods in US history, it's easy to think of the Fifties as a bore, a time when very little happened in America.
But in reality the fifties were anything but a simple sleepy interlude in our history. With American and Soviet forces stockpiling H-bombs in preparation for a nuclear showdown, President Eisenhower had to negotiate the tensest decade of the Cold War. Many of the social tensions that would later erupt in the 1960s—especially over race and civil rights—were already moving into the forefront of America's social consciousness. And all the while, the era's widespread prosperity fundamentally reshaped the American way of life.
Fun Facts
1950
First Modern Credit Card Introduced
First Organ Transplant
First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
Korean War Begins
Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
1951
Color TV Introduced
South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race
Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII
1952
Car Seat Belts Introduced
The Great Smog of 1952
Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25
1953
DNA Discovered
First Playboy Magazine
Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest
Joseph Stalin Dies
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage1954First Atomic Submarine Launched
Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
1955
Disneyland Opens
Emmett Till Murdered
James Dean Dies in Car Accident
Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins
Ray Kroc Opens His First McDonald's
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
1956
Hungarian Revolution
T.V. Remote Control Invented
Velcro Introduced