Events+of+the+1950's

**__ Events﻿ __** Baby boom After WWII ended, soldiers came back home with a big smile on their faces. They ended up getting married with someone of thier choosing. This resulted in a huge baby boom. In Canada, this baby boom increased approximately 20% of Canada's population at the time. Since new-borns were one of the major age groups and they kept on increasing, companies / industries had to make products according to this age group to stay in the business and make some profit. All these new kids called for new furniture, toys, food, supplies, etc. More teachers, doctors, etc were needed to take care and/or assist all these babies. New houses, apartments, and other types of shelters were needed to support this huge population. More resources such as food, water, etc were also needed in order to aid Canada’s increasing population. There was a new term invented when all of these babies reached the age of 13, “Teenagers”. Before, this term was never heard of. When these babies became teenagers, they demanded different types of things and new inventions. Factories had to keep up with all the things these babies would need as they grew older.

During this time, there was also an increase in the immigration rate of Canada. Once Canadian soldiers returned home, they would eventually call for woman they met over seas and bring them to Canada so they could start a family of their own.

Baby boom was the perfect event to switch the war time economy to post-war time economy in Canada.



This is an actual picture taken in Time Square, NY City. People literally enjoyed themselves in the middle of the street, out in the open.

Korean War  On June 25, 1950 about 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea starting the Korean War. The reason behind this attack if because of land disputes in Korea. These land disputes started after WW2 when the Allied forces redrew the map of the world. So North Korea tried attacking South Korea to possible gain more land. The North Koreans were supported by the USSR and China while the South Koreans were supported by most of the UN, USA and Canada. The reason the soviets were supporting North Korea because they are communist and they want communism to be more worldwide but the Canadians and the US are against the North and supporting the South to stop communism to be much more worldwide. Canada first helped out in the Korean War was on July 12, 1950 when they gave control to the United Nations of three Canadian destroyers by the Canadian Navy. These three ships were HMCS Cayuga, HMCS Athabaskan and the HMCS Sioux. On August 7, 1950 the Canadian government authorized the recruitment of the "Canadian Army Special Force". The Canadian Army Special Force was a special forces group trained for Canada's obligations in the Korean War. The Korean War ended on July 27, 1953 to an armistice. An armistice is when the opposing sides in a war agree to stop fighting.