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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 |
| | | 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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| 1951 |
| | | US boxer Sugar Ray Robinson beats Jake Lamotta to take the middleweight title (for the first of five times) | |
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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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| 1951 |
| | | Elia Kazan directs Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in the film of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire | |
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