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Summarize the focus of Government and Politics during the 1950s
Government and Politics throughout the 1950s

 ...1950  On February 9th, a paranoid senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy, made public an appalling accusation that 205 Communist party members were working in the State Department. This wildly, out-of-control situation was known as "The Red Scare".

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 1951 On March 7th, Gen. Douglas MacArthur warns Truman that a stalemate will develop in Korea unless United Nations troops are permitted to move against China.

1952 On September 23 of 1952, Nixon, responding to media reports that he had pocketed a political-expense fund, makes an appalling televised appeal to the public in which he states, "I'm not a quitter," and in which he observes that the only gift his family received from his life in politics was a cocker spaniel named Checkers. 1953 On July 27 an armistice was concluded in Korea that left country divided. United States guaranteed economic aid and military security.

 1954 On May 17th, t he U.S. Supreme Court rules segregation is illegal in public schools.
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 1955  The African American Civil rights movements begin. Fighting for the first rights such as segregation and voting in the southern states. Simple disobedience caused crisis situations between activists and the government authorities especially during protest.

 1956  On 8th of November, the Cabinet of Israel met to discuss the situation in view of the United Nations and the views of President Eisenhower and Premier Bulganin. Israel is accepted in the United Nations with the agreement to with drawl their forces in certain areas.

 1957  A successful launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 shows signs that beginning of American fears that the Soviets had achieved a higher technological gain over the U.S. The American government soon developed NASA to compete in the newly formed space race.

 1958 <span class="text_exposed_show"> In May a formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. This will better protect the United States from a Soviet Union attack.

<span class="text_exposed_show"> 1959 <span class="text_exposed_show"> With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States. Also President Eisenhower signs an executive order saying that Hawaii is the 50th state of the union.

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