Most Significant Events

Does the past provide lessons for the present, or assistance for the future? Does history help us recognize what to do, besides telling us who we are? To learn from the history we need to understand and identify its ultimate myth and ambiguity from the facts and truth so, we can prevent repeating it. Study the past could explain the circumstances in the present, whether the dominance of a political group in Congress, a war in the Middle East, or elevation in suicide rate, we may need to look for the root factors that took place in the past. In this essay we study some of the major social, economic, and political events following World War II from 1950 to 1990.

One of the most challenged phases in modern history was the decade of 1950s. The events of WWII and the Cold War put the people around the world in need for socio-political and economic equilibrium. Many events happened in 1950 such as the development of hydrogen bomb by President Truman permission, the Korean War followed by the Vietnam War, the ‘witch-hunt’ order for communists by Senator McCarty, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Civil Rights movement.

The 1950s’ event that I think had more powerful impact on the American people on social, economic and political level was the Cold War. The Cold War (1945-1960) was reflected in international relation between the U.S.A. and many countries and shaped the U.S. foreign policy; it also affected the domestic economy, and reflected in culture through music, books, etc.

The Cold War originally started in the late 1910s with the events of the Red Scare, and intensified with Stalin’s brutal government. The mutual suspicions of the Americans and the soviets toward each other were also a fuel to the already lit fire, but all the hostilities and concerns put to the side when Hitler invaded Russia and the soviets became allies. But the differences emerged between the Americans and the Soviets when the WWII...