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History of the 1950s

The 1950s were an era of unprecedented scientific and commercial development. Identify some of these famous incidents from the decade.

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Last updated: April 25, 2014

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Year	Incident	Answer
1950	A war begins in this Asian country	Korea
1950	This beloved comic strip appears for the first time	Peanuts
1951	A treaty signed with this country officially ends WWII	Japan
1951	This iconic novel is first published	The Catcher in the Rye
1952	Viewership for this TV show tops 10 million	I Love Lucy
1952	A new monarch is crowned in this nation	United Kingdom
1953	This magazine is published for the first time	Playboy
1953	This absurdist play receives its premiere	Waiting for Godot
1954	This new technology makes its commercial debut	Color Television
1954	This song sparks a new craze: Rock and Roll	Rock Around the Clock
1955	This up-and-coming actor dies in a car crash	James Dean
1955	This scientist's polio vaccine is approved for wide use	Jonas Salk
1956	Grace Kelly becomes Queen of this small nation	Monaco
1956	A revolution occurs in this European country	Hungary
1957	This name is given to the first man-made satellite	Sputnik 1
1957	This famous stage musical debuts on Broadway	West Side Story
1958	This movie star's daughter is arrested for stabbing her mother's boyfriend	Lana Turner
1958	This man becomes leader of the Soviet Union	Nikita Khruschev
1959	Disneyland introduced this new form of travelling technology	Monorail
1959	This art museum opens in New York City	Guggenheim Museum

ander217

level 76

May 15, 2014

I answered Sabin for the polio vaccine - didn't realize his oral vaccine was developed two years later. I remember standing in a long line at school waiting to get my sugar cube in the early 1960s.

redsplat

level 76

Jan 27, 2015

Great quiz!

tolerated

level 72

May 13, 2015

Rather to American, and too many celebrity-related questions to qualify as 'history'. I hope our children never have to learn about Lana Turner in school lessons!

Pimbard6

level 74

Sep 11, 2015

Good quiz, but isn't the Soviet leader's name spelled Khrushchev?