Event between 1945-1953?

The end of world war II with the dropping of the 2 atomic bombs, followed by the Cold War and the Soviet Union (also called USSR or Russia) getting the atomic bomb in 1949, and the development of the Hydrogen bomb, possibly in 1953 or a year later in 1954 (look it up)

Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union died in 1953, he had caused the Cold War by wanting to hold on to Germany and Eastern Europe.

Space exploration began with Sputnik in 1957, a little after your time line. But German born Werner Von Braun (not sure of the spelling), who had worked for Nazi Germany, would lead the US space program. It began with an artificial satellite 4 months after Russia’s Sputnik in early 1958. Von Braun had been in the US since the end of World War II and was working toward the space program.

Television had been developed before the war, but until the end of the war was not used much. In the late 40′s and early 50′s, most homes got a TV set. Shows like “I Love Lucy” which premiered in 1951 and others like Milton Berle’s show and “Your SHow of Shows” were popular in the early 50′s. TV was in black and white, not color at the time.

Fear of Communism was everywhere, it was as big as fear of terrorism or dislike or distrust of Muslim extremism is now. The worst thing somebody could be called was a Communist (or Commie) or “Pinko”, somebody who was accused of sympathizing with Communists but was not really ‘red’ or Communist. The McCarthy Hearings, which called people to testify in the Senate to prove they were not Communists started around 1953. Many were falsely accused of being Communists, often by people with a vendetta for some reason.

Movies were often Westerns, I think “High Noon’ was made in ’52 or 53 but I’m not sure. Science Fiction movies were starting to get popular, with aliens and space ships representing people’s fears about Russia and Communism. I don’t know exact dates or titles on some of them. But TV was really cutting into Movie sales.