Some horror films during this period, such as The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ) and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 ), managed to channel the paranoia of the Cold War into atmospheric creepiness.

However, the new geopolitical logic of the Cold War made possible that the former enemy Italy, a hinge-country between Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and now a new, fragile democracy threatened by the proximity of the Iron Curtain and the presence of a strong Communist party, was considered by the USA as an important ally for the Free World, and received under the Marshall Plan US $ 1, 204 million from 1947 to 1951.

The Mutual Security Act of 1951 is a United States federal law, signed on October 10, 1951 by President Harry S. Truman, which authorized nearly $ 7. 5 billion for foreign military, economic, and technical foreign aid to American allies ; the aid was aimed primarily at shoring up Western Europe, as the Cold War developed.

" As the Cold War intensified, the ISFI's 1951 World Congress adopted theses by Michel Pablo that anticipated an international civil war.

* Cold Storage ( 1951 )

* Cold Turkey ( 1951 )

In 1951, the Psychological Strategy Board ( PSB ), made up of the deputies at State and Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence, was created to coordinate the response to Soviet unconventional Cold War tactics.

In 1951 " Dear John " became a hit, but it was the flip side, " Cold, Cold Heart ", that became one of his most-recognized songs.

In 1951, V Corps returned to Germany and defended the Fulda Gap during the Cold War.

Her hit recordings included blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even a version of Hank Williams ' " Cold, Cold Heart " ( R & B Number 3, 1951 ).

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, there has been some uncertainty about whether the United States defence force could or should remain in Iceland, having been invited there in 1951, at the height of the Cold War.

The base briefly came under Danish control in 1950, but following mounting concerns about the Cold War threat, a new agreement saw the United States reopen Bluie West-8 under the name of Sondrestrom Air Base on 27 April 1951.

During both World War II and the Cold War it was subordinate to the Seventh Army, or USAREUR and was headquartered at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, West Germany, from 1951 until it was redeployed to the US and deactivated in 1992.

In the end, the beginning of the Cold War led to increased German control of the area, although permanently limited by the pooling of German coal and steel into a multinational community in 1951 ( see European Coal and Steel Community ).

However, in 1947, with the onset of the Cold War, Smiley was asked to return to the Service, and in early 1951 moved into counter-intelligence work, where he would remain for the next decade.

His books, mostly collections of humorous pieces that were originally published in newspapers and magazines, included Constantly in Pursuit, Come Here Till I Tell You, Life in Thin Slices ( 1951 ), An Irishman's Diary, Patrick Campbell's Omnibus ( 1954 ), A Short Trot with a Cultured Mind, A Long Drink of Cold Water, How to Become a Scratch Golfer ( 1963 ), The P-P-Penguin Patrick Campbell ( 1965 ), Brewing Up in the Basement, Rough Husbandry, All Ways on Sundays ( 1966 ), A Bunch of New Roses, The Coarse of Events, Gullible Travels, The High Speed Gasworks, Waving All Excuses, Patrick Campbell's Golfing Book, Fat Tuesday Tails ( 1972 ), 35 Years on the Job ( 1973 ), The Campbell Companion ( 1987 ) and an autobiography, My Life and Easy Times.

During the Cold War at Bronfman's urging, the CJC expelled the United Jewish Peoples ' Order and other " left-leaning " Jewish organizations in 1951.

He began to have more established roles by the early 1950s, starring in The African Queen ( 1951 ), The Red Beret ( 1953 ) for Albert R. Broccoli, Ice Cold in Alex ( 1958 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Road to Hong Kong ( 1962 ), 55 Days at Peking ( 1963 ), Lancelot and Guinevere ( 1963 ), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ( 1965 ), Lord Jim ( 1965 ), Black Sunday ( 1977 ), The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ) and Cuba ( 1979 ).

The Mallinckrodt " K-65 residues " were later moved to the Feed Materials Production Center, a Cold War era uranium refinery at Fernald, OH ( outside of Cincinnati ) which commenced operations in 1951.

Starting in 1950 with director William Berke ’ s Mark of the Gorilla, Katzman proved himself a master of all genres, with such films as Lew Landers ’ Tyrant of the Sea ( 1950 ), a rapidly paced swashbuckler ; Spencer Gordon Bennet ’ s Cody of the Pony Express ( 1950 ), an elegiac western chapter-play ; the near-documentary State Penitentiary ( Lew Landers, 1950 ); the rousing action serial Pirates of the High Seas ( Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1950 ); Chain Gang ( Lew Landers, 1950 ), a hard-boiled exposé of the prison system reminiscent of Mervyn LeRoy ’ s 1932 classic I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ; A Yank in Korea ( Landers, 1951 ), covering the then-escalating conflict ), Richard Quine ’ s wartime drama Purple Heart Diary ( 1951 ); Last Train from Bombay ( Fred F. Sears, 1952 ), an exotic thriller ; Sears ' The 49th Man, an essay in Cold War atomic paranoia ; two Arabian Nights films, Prisoners of the Casbah and The Saracen Blade ( William Castle, 1954 ) and Castle ’ s The Iron Glove ( 1954 ), which starred Robert Stack in a Technicolor swashbuckler, done in typical Katzman fashion.

* 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

The party split in 1951 over the austerity budget brought in by Hugh Gaitskell to pay for the cost of Britain's participation in the Korean War.

* 1951 – Korean War: Sancheong-Hamyang massacre

* 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the " high-water mark " of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.

* 1951 – Korean War: Geochang massacre

* Col. Sydney Herring ( 1881 – 1951 ): World War I commander at Gallipoli.

And from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War until the early 1970s, 800, 000 – 1, 000, 000 Jews left, fled, or were expelled from their homes in Arab countries ; 260, 000 of them reached Israel between 1948 and 1951 ; and 600, 000 by 1972.

Following the unconditional surrender of Japan to Allied Powers after World War II, Taiwan was relinquished by Japan as a stolen territory from China ( like Manchukuo ) by the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951.

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

* 1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.

* 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.

* 1951 – Ganghwa massacre: Korean War.

* 1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.

The roots of the 1951 – 2011 Libyan armed forces can be traced to the Libyan Arab Force ( popularly known as the Sanusi Army ) of World War II.

* 1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

* " Mines Are Dirty Tricks ", February 1951 updates to above article on naval mines due to Korean War and types and measures against

* 1951 – Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

In late 1951, the lab hosted a talk by Adolf Busemann, a famous German aerodynamicist who had moved to Langley after World War II.

In 1951, Libya became the first African country to gain independence in the decade, and in 1954 the Algerian War began.

It was initially established in 1951 as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration ( ICEM ) to help resettle people displaced by World War II.