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| 1951 |
| | | German-born US philosopher Hannah Arendt links Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in The Origins of Totalitarianism | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner open on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Catcher in the Rye is US author J.D. Salinger's immensely successful first novel | |
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| 1951 |
| | | US novelist Carson McCullers publishes a collection of stories, The Ballad of the Sad Caf&eacaute; | |
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| 1951 |
| | | John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, based on a C.S. Forester story | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The first hydrogen bomb is successfully tested by the US at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US boxer Rocky Marciano becomes world heavyweight champion, defeating 'Jersey Joe' Walcott | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US author Ralph Ellison publishes his first novel, Invisible Man, a Kafkaesque account of a black immigrant's life in New York | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Gene Kelly dances a famous routine with an umbrella in the film Singin' in the Rain | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Ernest Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea, about an epic struggle between an aged Cuban fisherman and a gigantic marlin | |
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