1950 (U.S. CENSUS: 150.7 MILLION ­PEOPLE)
World War II-­era G.I. Bill of Rights (1947 to 1956).
First modern credit card introduced.
January 27: Klaus Fuchs confession of spying for the Soviets implicates his
sister-­in-­law and her husband, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
January 31: President Harry Truman announces development of the hydrogen
bomb.
February 9: Senator Joseph McCarthy gives Wheeling, West ­Virginia, speech
claiming Communist infiltration in U.S. government.
June: Korean War begins and military advisors sent to South Vietnam.
1951
Color tele­ vi ­sion introduced to market.
March 29: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage.
September 4: Truman speaks in first coast-­to-­coast live tele­ vi ­ sion broadcast.
December: Buckminster Fuller patents “Geodesic Dome.”
1952
Mr. Potato Head is the first toy advertised on tele­ vi ­ sion.
July 25: Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. Commonwealth.
November 1: The United States explodes first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok
Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific.
November 4: Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president over Adlai Stevenson.
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