The 1950s

 All these events took place in the 1950s.

The Korean War took place from 1950 until 1953 between North and South Korea. Following border conflicts and rebellions in South Korea, North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, sparking the start of the Korean War. China and the Soviet Union backed North Korea, while the United Nations, particularly the United States, supported South Korea. On July 27, 1953, an armistice ended the conflict. With around 3 million military casualties and a higher percentage of civilian deaths than World War II or the Vietnam War, the Korean War was one of the most devastating wars of the modern period.

The first 180 half-hour episodes of the American television comedy I Love Lucy, which ran for six seasons from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, were broadcast on CBS. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley all appeared in the program. The show focused on the lives of Lucy Ricardo, a young housewife from a middle-class neighborhood in New York City, who often devised schemes with her closest friends, Ethel and Fred Mertz, to make an appearance with her bandleader husband, Ricky Ricardo, at his nightclub.

From 6 February 1952 until she died in 2022, Elizabeth II reigned over the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth territories. During her lifetime, she had the regency over 32 sovereign nations; at the time of her death, that number was 15. She ruled for 70 years and 214 days, the longest known tenure for a female head of state in history and the longest of any British monarch. At the age of 25, Elizabeth succeeded her father as head of the Commonwealth and queen of seven sovereign Commonwealth nations: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Her father passed away in February 1952.