Chronology
Date Historical Events Literary Events
1950 President Truman announces that the Charles Olson, ‘Projective
USA is to proceed with the building Verse’
of the hydrogen bomb; the Korean
War breaks out.
1952 Dwight Eisenhower is elected
President of the USA with Richard
Nixon as his Vice President.
1953 Soviet troops suppress strikes and an
uprising in East Germany; the Korean
War comes to an end.
1954 The defeat of French forces by the
Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu
effectively ends French colonial
involvement in Indo-China.
1955 In Montgomery, Alabama 42 -year- Philip Larkin, The Less
old African-American Rosa Parks Deceived
refuses to give up her seat on a city
bus to make room for a white
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