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| 1951 |
| | | The Twenty-Second Amendment to the US Constitution prevents anyone being elected for more than two presidential terms | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower wins the US presidential election with Richard Nixon as his vice-president | |
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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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| 1956 |
| | | Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected for a second US presidential term, again with Richard Nixon as his vice-president | |
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| 1957 |
| | | US paratroops enforce desegregation in Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Vice-president Richard Nixon engages in a 'kitchen debate' with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev at a US exhibition in Moscow | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Democrat candidate John F. Kennedy defeats Republican Richard Nixon in the US presidential election | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Vietcong, or NLF, is formed as a guerrilla force to liberate South Vietnam from the US-backed government | |
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| 1961 |
| | | President Kennedy appoints his younger brother Robert to the position of US attorney-general | |
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| 1961 |
| | | President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps, enabling US volunteers to work abroad | |
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