Government and Politics

• The Korean War had just ended.
• The House Un-American Activities Committee was holding its hearings.
• Albania entered the Warsaw pact.
• Peron was ousted in Argentina by a military coup.
• Ireland and Austria joined the United Nations
• Ben Gurion became Prime Minister of the new nation of Israel
• Dag Hammarskjold became Secretary General of the United Nations

Labor

• AFL-CIO was formed by the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s