| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1950 |
Internal Security Act enacted over Truman's veto |
| February 9, 1950 |
Sen. McCarthy begins anti-Comunist accusations |
| February 20, 1950 |
McCarthy details '81 loyalty risks' |
| January 1, 1951 |
Bricker on campaign for amendment allowing Congressional treaty regulation |
| July 14, 1951 |
McCarthy accuses Gen. Marshall of 'whimpering appeasement' |
| September 1, 1951 |
Senator Taft announces intentions to run for President |
| January 1, 1952 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteDwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) 55.1 442 |
| July 2, 1952 |
Republican convention at Chicago |
| January 1, 1953 |
Bricker obtains sixty-two Senate cosponsors |
| July 31, 1953 |
Taft dies; Knowland becomes majority leader |
| January 1, 1954 |
Averell Harriman elected governor of New York |
| February 1, 1954 |
Johnson substitute for Bricker amendment fails by one vote |
| March 1, 1954 |
Puerto Rican Nationalists open fire on the House of Representatives |
| April 1, 1954 |
televised hearings of McCarthy trials air |
| December 2, 1954 |
Senate censures McCarthy |
| January 1, 1955 |
Howard Smith becomes the House Rules Committee chair |
| January 1, 1955 |
House resolution to aid Formosa |
| July 1, 1955 |
President goes to Big Four summit,popularity booms |
| January 1, 1956 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteDwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) 57.6 457 |
| January 1, 1956 |
Senate kills Eisenhower's Dixon-Yates contract |
| August 13, 1956 |
Democratic convention held in Chicago |
| August 20, 1956 |
Republican national convention at San Fransisco's Cow Palace |
| January 1, 1957 |
passage of civil rights act forwarded by Johnson |
| January 1, 1957 |
Kennedy writes Profiles in Courage |
| January 1, 1957 |
Eisenhower uses troops to enforce segregation by Governor Faubus |
| January 1, 1958 |
Democrats gain majority in House of Representatives |
| January 1, 1959 |
Senate rejects Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce |
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