The 50's

Music
Rock and roll dominated popular music in the latter half of the 1950s. The musical style originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Elvis Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". 

Politics

This is a picture of one of the presidents during the 1950's. His name is Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as Ike. He became our president in 1952. He was well known for being the Supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, which was during World War II. When he became the president his slogan was "We Like Ike". He helped the department of Education and the Department of Welfare. During his presidency some people criticized the way he handled school segregation. They said that he went too slow, but the one thing that was good about him was that he stood for the Civil Rights Act in 1957. Eisenhower was a republican and he was elected twice, once in 1952 and again in 1956. His election in 1952 was the first to ever be broadcast on television. Also CBS used one of the first computers to ever predict the election.  

 

Cinema

When Worlds Collide (1951)
Produced by George Pal based on the SciFi novel by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer. One of the earlier doomsday movies about Earth getting hit by another planet. Filmed in Technicolor, directed by Rudolph Maté and winner of the 1951 Academy Award for special effects. Inspiration for the movie "Deep Impact".

Society

Pop Art used the iconography of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. With its roots in dadaism, it started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some European artists started to make the symbols and products of the world of advertising and propaganda the main subject of their artistic work. This return of figurative art, in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II was dominated by Great Britain until the early 1960s when Andy Warhol, the most known artist of this movement began to show Pop Art in galleries in the United States.