1950s

the 1950s was the middle decade of the 20th century.it was also known as the decade of rock and roll,the atomic decade, the beginning of the space age and the decade when your parents were set up by marty mcfly.

major events
1950 The Americans come into the Korean War to test out their Fighter's against those of the "Ruskies".unfortunately the Russians have exactly the same stolen Nazi technology and neither side can tell each other's aircraft apart,with quite hilarious results.

1953 America and Russia are poised to and nuke each other with stolen V2s.in the words of winston churchill,

"Fuck the United Nations,Im getting Me one of them Nukes".*

and so he did.

1957 sputnik is launched into orbit by the russians.america wont stand for being beaten by those "pesky communists",and cobbles together a rocket with some old v2s and other crap to launch its own satellite into space.it rises 4 feet and then blows up

"we arent going to beat the communists with that peice of shit."

president eisenhower after looking at the rocket.

1959 every doo wop record left over from the 1950s gets put into jukeboxes around the world,where they stay until at least the mid 80s.


 * He actually said this in 1946.