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| 1950 |
| | US state department official Alger Hiss is sentenced to a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of perjury in a second trial | |
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| 1950 |
| | In response to the Soviet atom bomb, President Truman announces a crash programme to develop a hydrogen bomb | |
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| 1950 |
| | A witch hunt begins when Senator Joseph McCarthy says he knows the names of 205 Communists in the US State Department | |
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| 1950 |
| | US evangelist Billy Graham forms the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, to take the Christian message to the world | |
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| 1950 |
| | The Family Moskat, about a Jewish family in Warsaw, is the first of Isaac Bashevis Singer's books to be published in English | |
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| 1950 |
| | The Canadian schooner St Roch becomes the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal and the Northwest Passage, thus circumnavigating North America | |
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| 1950 |
| | US sociologist David Riesman analyzes the American character in The Lonely Crowd | |
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| 1950 |
| | Julius Rosenberg is arrested on suspicion of being a Soviet spy, and his wife Ethel is arrested a few weeks later | |
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| 1950 |
| | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes his epic account of South America and its people, Canto general | |
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| 1951 |
| | US boxer Sugar Ray Robinson beats Jake Lamotta to take the middleweight title (for the first of five times) | |
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