In the United States, a wave of anti-communist sentiment known as the Second Red Scare resulted in Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress. Along with increased testing of nuclear weapons (such as RDS-37 and Upshot–Knothole), the tense geopolitical situation created a politically conservative climate. The ideological clash between communism and capitalism dominated the decade, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, with conflicts including the Korean War in the early 1950s, the Cuban Revolution, the beginning of the Vietnam War in French Indochina, and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Despite this recovery, the Cold War developed from its modest beginnings in the late 1940s to a heated competition between the Soviet Union and the United States by the early 1960s. The period also saw great population growth with increased birth rates and the emergence of the baby boomer generation. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion. The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties" or the " '50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. ![]() This starts the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States. ![]() A 1954 thermonuclear test, code named Castle Romeo, is shown here In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista in the Cuban Revolution, which results in the creation of the first and only communist government in the Western hemisphere Elvis Presley becomes the leading figure of the newly popular music genre of rock and roll in the mid-1950s.īottom, L-R: Smoke rises from oil tanks on Port Said following the invasion of Egypt by Israel, United Kingdom and France as part of the Suez Crisis in late 1956 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, in October 1957. late September 1950 The first polio vaccine is developed by Jonas Salk.Ĭentre, L-R: US tests its first thermonuclear bomb with code name Ivy Mike in 1952. Marines engaged in street fighting during the Korean War, c. Odin, WHERE? is Where now horse Vikings Scandinavia lived, with and lags in what Iceland ing of the Norse gods, took a is now Scandinavia and Iceland liking to Sleipnir, and rode the LEGENDARY ORIGIN: Norse Mythology SOUND LEGENDARY OFF ORIGIN: SLEEP-ner Norse Mythology horse everywhere he went.Top, L-R: U.S. Sleipnir had Creature Features over super strength, run across land, and sea could and air NAME: Means ancient 'aliding' in - oceans and runacross land, sea and air gncient oceans and BODY PARTS: B of jiant ina flash, BODY PARTS: horse Body of giant run on air. The creature's great magical mouthful strides covered great distances ina of symbols called matter of seconds, runes carved on tts and its legs never teeth, this tripped over legged steed could Macic Horse: This majestic horse had Horse: This and even had runes (magical symbols) the power carved on its teeth, which gave to glide it great powers. legs, and was the fastest horse in all the With the help of world. 4 0 Fast as THE WIND: the Pegasus from Greek myth, According to Nordic myth, Sleipnit iphi Sleipnir was the legendary horse (Like Seandinavian version of the Norse gods.
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