 Ethel), were sentenced to death, having been found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Russians on 29/3/1951.. They were executed on 19/6/1953.
14/3/1951. US troops recaptured Seoul.
25/1/1951, UN forces halted the advance of the North Koreans and counterattacked.
1/1/1951, Chinese and North Korean forces advanced through UN lines and captured Seoul.
1950, The Defense Production Act was passed, allowing public corporations to borrow from the US Treasury if national security was at stake.
28/12/1950. Chinese forces in Korea crossed the 38th parallel.
13/12/1950. Marshall Aid to Britain stopped.
28/11/1950. China entered the Korean War; 200,000 troops entered Korea across the Yalu River. UN troops were forced back south again. On 28/12/1950 Chinese forces crossed the 38th parallel. The West had ignored Chinese threats to intervene if US forces crossed north of the 38th parallel.
24/11/1950, South Korean forces began an offensive in the Yalu Valley; China planned intervention to support the North,
7/11/1950, In US elections, the Republicans gained 30 seats in the House of Representatives.
1/11/1950, Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempted to assassinate President Harry S Truman. Torresola was killed during the attack, but Collazo was captured. Collazo served 29 years in a federal prison, being released in 1979. Don Pedro Albizu Campos also served many years in a federal prison in Atlanta, for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government in Puerto Rico
19/10/1950. US and South Korean forces captured Pyongyang, during the Korean War.
9/10/1950. US forces, having reached the 38th parallel, the old intra-Korean border, at the end of September, now crossed into North Korea. Warnings from the Indian Prime Minister, Nehru, that this might provoke Chinese intervention were ignored (see 28/11/1950).
1/10/1950, South Korean forces recrossed the 38th parallel.
26/9/1950. US forces recaptured Seoul.
23/9/1950, The US passed the McCarran Act, which set up the Subversive Activities Control Board. All Communist individuals and organisations had to be registered, and no current of former member of s Communist of Fascist organisation could enter the USA. The Board was abolished in 1973.
15/9/1950. UN forces landed behind enemy lines at Inchon, North Korea. The South Korean capital, Seoul, was retaken by the end of September 1950.
12/9/1950, Louis A Johnson resigned as US Secretary of Defence. He was succeeded by George Marshall.
1/9/1950. North Korean forces crossed the Naktong River.
26/7/1950, Britain decided to send troops to Korea.
19/7/1950. President Truman asked the US Congress for a big rise in military spending.
8/7/1950, US General MacArthur took over UN forces in Korea.
2/7/1950, American troops landed in South Korea.
29/6/1950, South Korean forces retook Seoul.
28/6/1950, British Royal navy ships joined the US forces in South Korea.
27/6/1950. North Korean forces took Seoul. British forces joined the war in Korea.
26/6/1950, US President Truman sent US forces to support South Korea.
25/6/1950. Start of the Korean War. North Korea invaded the South, crossing the 38th parallel, which was the border.
9/2/1950. In the USA, Joseph McCarthy launched an anti-Communist crusade. He claimed he knew the names of 250 Communists employed within the State Department. See 25/2/1954.
31/1/1950. President Truman told US scientists to make an H-Bomb.
22/1/1950, In the USA, Alger Hiss, former advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt, was convicted of perjury for denying contacts to Soviet agents. Hiss had liaised with Chambers, editor of Time Magazine and a Communist agent. A previous trial of Hiss ended in a hung jury; this day he received 5 years in prison. Senator McCarthy used this case to allege that the US State Department was riddled with Communist agents.
17/9/1949, The first meeting of NATO was held.
24/8/1949, The North Atlantic Treaty, NATO, came into force.
9/5/1949. Billy Joel, American singer and songwriter, was born in the Bronx, New York.
4/4/1949. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed i