Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency (2nd time) - 1956
Ginsberg publishes Howl and Other Poems - 1956
Stallinger Publishes Catcher in the Rye - 1951
Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency - 1952
Ellison published invisble man - 1952
UN headquarters open in NYC - 1952
CIA coup installs shah of Iran - 1953
Joseph Stalin dies - 1953
Miller's The Crucible debuts on Broadway - 1953
Below publishes The Adventures of Augie March - 1953
French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam - 1954
Brown v. Board of Education - 1954
Nasser becomes prime minister of Egypt - 1954
CIA-sponsored coup in Guatemala - 1954
Montgomery Bus Boycott - 1955
Geneva summit meeting on Vietnam - 1955
AF of L merges with CIO - 1955
Tennesee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first performed - 1955
Soviets crush Hungarian revolt - 1956
Suez Crisis - 1956
Little Rock School Crisis - 1957
Civil Rights Act passed - 1957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed - 1957
Soviet Union launches Sputnik - 1957
Kerouc publishes On the Road - 1957
EEC created by the Treaty of Rome - 1957
NDEA authorizes loans and grants for science and language education - 1958
Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society - 1958
Castro seizes power in Cuba - 1959
Landrum-Griffin Act - 1959
Alaska and Hawaii are granted statehood - 1959
Guggenheim Museum opens in NYC - 1959
Sit-in movement for civil rights begins - 1960
U-2 incident sabotages Paris summit - 1960
OPEC formed - 1960
Kennedy defeats Nixon for presidency - 1960
Updike publishes Rabbit, Run - 1960
Lee publishes To Kill a Mockingbird - 1960
Heller publishes Catch 22 - 1961
Berlin wall built - 1961
Alliance for progress- 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion- 1961
Kennedy send military advisors to South Vietnam - 1961
Pressure from Kennedy results in rollback of steel prices - 1962
Trade Expansion Act - 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962
Plath publishes The Bell Jar - 1963
Anti-Diem coup in South Vietnam - 1963
Civil Rights March on Washington - 1963
Kennedy Assassination - 1963