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| 1952 |
| | | A left-wing coup brings Paz Estenssoro to power and launches a 12-year revolution in Bolivia | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Imre Nagy becomes prime minister of Hungary, but is driven out of office two years later by hard-line Communists because of his relative liberalism | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sent to the electric chair as convicted spies | |
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| 1953 |
| | | An armistice ends the Korean War, leaving several million dead and a country divided either side of a military zone along the 38th parallel | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The first Soviet hydrogen bomb is successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Senator McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt is broadcast live for several weeks on US television | |
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| 1954 |
| | | J. Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb', is investigated for Communist sympathies and his security clearance is withdrawn | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The term Domino Theory is coined to reflect President Eisenhower's view of how states might fall to Communism | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Hungarian photographer Robert Capa is killed by a land mine in Vietnam | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends with the surrender to the Vietminh of 12,000 French troops | |
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