1950


 * __ Major Political Events in the 1950's__**

__The Making of the H-Bomb__ ==== On January 31st, 1950, President Truman decided to tell the Atomic Energy Commission to continue to develop the Hydrogen Bomb. The race to build the Hydrogen Bomb was started shortly after the cold war when Truman announced that an atomic explosion had occurred in the USSR (Russia). This frightened Americans and many Americans wanted to make us the most armed country in the world. Four days after Truman’s speech, Lavrentii Beria, the chief of soviet security and of Stalin’s secret police, issued a protocol for reports on the “Layer Cake”, which was Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov’s Hydrogen Bomb design. This design was similar to Edward Teller’s alarm clock design. In Sakharov’s design, he worked on making a bomb that used deuterium compound and uranium-238. He used both of these by layering them one after the other. Deuterium compound is a compound of hydrogen hydride. Hydrogen though is replaced by a heavier isotope (a form of an element that has the same atomic number) called deuterium, which is just a denser form of hydrogen. ====





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__ Television in the 1950’s __ __ “I love Lucy” __ On October 15, 1951 at 9 PM “I love Lucy” went on CBS. This show has won a total of 7 awards with 24 nominations. “I love Lucy” had nine seasons in total. The main actors in this show were Lucille Ball which played Lucy Ricardo and Desi Arnaz which played Lucy’s husband Ricky Ricardo. “I love Lucy” spent four of its six seasons as the highest-rated series on television. Eisenhower’s inauguration in January 1953 drew in twenty-nine million viewers. Television in the 1950s was abundant with images of marriage and family. The story of //I Love Lucy//'s humble origins suited it perfectly, because it told of how a television program rescued a rocky marriage, bringing an emotionally renewed and financially triumphant family.





 **__Inventions of the 1950's__** by Andrew DeVore

 **Credit Card ** American Express issued the first credit card in 1958. The Credit card is a plastic card. This eliminates the need to carry cash. You can pay for goods and services by swiping the Credit card. You can use the Credit card to withdraw cash from an ATM.

** Barcode ** It is found in almost all items now. This is a code, which is unique for each item. A barcode scanner reads the code. Joseph Woodland, Jordin Johanson and Bernard Silver invented it in 1952. It was initially used to identify railroad cars. In 1966 they were bought in commercial use. However it was only in the 80’s that barcodes were commercially successful. They are used in shipping, receiving and inventory and sales tracking. **Super glue**

Dr. Harry Coover and Dr. Fred Joyner invented it in 1951. It is in fact a chemical called Cyanoacrylate. It was found when attempting to find a heat resistant acrylate polymer for use in jet engines. Super glue can be used to bind non-porous material. It was initially dubbed "Compound 910" and later its name was changed to Super glue. []

1950’s Art ** Expressionism was the Post-World War art movement. It was the first American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. After the war, images of the Holocaust plagued the art scene. Artists also began to explore color and shape and to paint an entire canvas orange or blue. Expressionism is seen as combining emotional intensity and self-expression with anti-figurative aesthetic. The movement described formal trend in American abstraction at the time. It can be divided into two groups: Action Painting and Color Field and Hard-Edge Painting. -Pop Art -Kinetic Art -Op Art -Graffiti -Abstract Expressionism -Art Informel -Art Brut -Cobra -Lyrical Abstraction Contemporary Style International Style Split Level Style Geodesic Dome [] [] Interior Decorating 1 Notes = =
 * 1950's Art and Architecture- Taylor Gibbs
 * Modernisms of 1950's **
 * Expressionisms of 1950's **
 * 1950’s Architecture **

** Fashion of the 1950’s **
2. Poodle skirt. 3. Rolled up t-shirt sleeve (black or white t-shirt good). 4. Pedal pushers (gold is good). 5. Black leather jacket--the collar must be turned up to be "hep." 6. The scarf. 7. 1950's gym wear. ** ** H airstyles**:  50's hairstyles were soft and curly. Long and straight was not in style then. Lady's often tied their hair in a ponytail and circled it with a pink chiffon scarf. They usually use pin curling and rollers to curl their hair. They sometimes used hairspray in their hair, since they didn't have blow dryers at the time. They also slept in curlers and rollers. A hairstyle called the “poodle cut” was from the poodle frenzy of the Fifties. Men's hairstyle in the 50’s was similar to the women's. The haircut would be called the “ducktail” or more commonly known as the DA. To accomplish this look you would need a lot of grease or hairspray! Well, real men didn't do this hairstyle. Guys that were rebels would use this hairstyle.
 * By: Lexy Giovannucci **
 * Must have clothing items **
 * 1. The cashmere sweater.
 * [[image:1950s_hair_and_poodle_skirt.jpg]]Shoes**: Nothing was more poplar then the saddle shoes. All the preppy girls would wear them! Today all girls of the fifties miss these fashion shoes. Even though they were very heavy and rather stiff. They were black and white and looked like a sneaker. Also, there were definitely other shoes for the women. The spike or the stiletto heel was a fashion of fixture. They were huge heels that looked like dancing shoes. They were really pretty! Another fashion shoe was the ballet slipper. It was the popular choice and was often worn with cutie white socks! Shoes were simple and plain during the 1950's and some people opted for ballet [|slippers], plain black and white shoes that resembled sneakers or the women loved to wear stilettos or spiked heels.
 * Gloves: ** Gloves were a very popular accessory in the 1950's, seeing a woman without gloves in those days, is like seeing a celebrity without make up in these days, which is very rare. Gloves would be worn to fancy restaurants, parties and whatever special occasion, even though gloves came in all lengths and patterns. The most popular type of gloves worn was white short gloves.
 * Skirts: ** Pencil and poodles skirts were the popular choice among women. Poodle skirts were wide skirts that had a patched pooled on the right bottom part of the skirt. [|Pencil skirts] were also popular; they were long below the knee and very tight, straight just like a pencil.
 * Leather: ** The cool [|leather jacket] was a must for the boys in the 1950's of course leather equivaleted to cool. Boys felt that the leather jacket help attract girls. Of course the collar had to be worn up to show off their bad boy look.


 * Political People From The 1950's **

** Dwight D. Eisenhower  ** Eisenhower rose to world prominence through his leadership of the Allied forces during World War II. As commanding general of American forces in Europe, he conducted successful campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. // One of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history, Stalin was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions, but he also oversaw the war machine that played a key role in the defeat of Nazism. //
 * Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) **



Throughout the 1950s, Ronald Reagan became increasingly involved in politics. Throughout this period he gave hundreds of speeches against Communism and anti- American activities that were very conservative in nature. Yet, at the same time, he continued to champion the causes of Democratic liberals as he had since he was younger.
 * Ronald Reagan **

Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy took advantage of this climate of fear in American culture to advance his political career.
 * Joseph McCarthy **