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1.3 War, peace and politics
Korean War
Red Scare
,
McCarthy Hearings
Suez Crisis
European
Common Market
founded.
Warsaw pact
founded.
Hungarian
revolution of 1956
brutally suppressed by
Soviet Union
's troops.
Fidel Castro
gains power in
Cuba
.
1.4 Economics
"Economic miracle" in
West Germany
.
1.5 Culture, religion
Brylcreem
and other hair tonics have a period of popularity
Television
replaces
radio
as the dominant mass medium in industrialized countries.
In the West, the generation traumatized by the
Great Depression
and
World War II
creates a culture with emphasis on normality and calm conformity.
Juvenile delinquency
said to be at unprecedented epidemic proportions in
USA
Traditional pop music
reaches its climax; early
Rock and roll
music embraced by teenagers/youth culture while generally dismissed or condemned by older generation.
Beatnik
culture/
The
Beat Generation
Optimistic visions of semi-Utopian technological future including such devices as the
flying car
.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
hits movie theaters.
Along with the appearance of the sentence
Kilroy was here
across the
United States
,
graffiti
as an
art
form develops, especially among urban
African American
s;
graffiti art
eventually becomes one of the four elements of
hip hop
1.6 Others
Wartime
Rationing
ends in the
United Kingdom
2 World leaders
Prime Minister
Louis St. Laurent
(
Canada
)
Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker
(
Canada
)
Chairman
Mao Zedong
(
People's Republic of China
)
President
Chiang Kai-shek
(
Republic of China
on Taiwan)
President
Gamal Abdel Nasser
(
Egypt
)
Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru
(
India
)
Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion
(
Israel
)
Emperor
Hirohito
(
Japan
)
Pope Pius XII
Pope John XXIII
Taoiseach
John A. Costello
(
Ireland
)
Taoiseach
Eamon de Valera
(
Ireland
)
Taoiseach
Sean Lemass
(
Ireland
)
Joseph Stalin
(
Soviet Union
)
Nikita Khrushchev
(
Soviet Union
)
King
George VI
(
United Kingdom
)
Queen
Elizabeth II
(
United Kingdom
)
Prime Minister Sir
Winston Churchill
(
United Kingdom
)
Prime Minister Sir
Anthony Eden
(
United Kingdom
)
Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan
(
United Kingdom
)
Prime Minister
Robert Menzies
(
Australia
)
President
Harry S. Truman
(
United States
)
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(
United States
)
Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer
(
West Germany
)
President
Josip Broz Tito
(
Yugoslavia
)
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