The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties " or the " '50s ") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.
The 1950s was a decade marked by the post- World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the United States.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/1779952-1950s-timeline-v2-5b902affc9e77c0050ba135c.png)
The 1950s were the first full decade after the end of World War II and is remembered as a prosperous time of recovery from the Great Depression of the 1930s and the war years of the 1940s.