Politics:

Cold War conflicts involving the influence of the rival superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States.
On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalist staged an attempted assassination on U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
In 1959, Alaska( January 3) and Hawaii( August 21) became the 49th and 50th states of the United States.
The United States was the most influential economic powers in the world after WWII under the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In the general election, in 1952, Ike ran against Democrat Adlai Stevenson. This is when Eisenhower came up with the slogan, "I like Ike". The slogan had a nice ring to it, and it was true. Americans did like Ike, for the most part. Eisenhower was the most popular president in the twentieth century.