mid-20th century
Around the fifties
Mid-20th century refers to the middle decades of the 1900s, roughly the 1940s through 1960s.
The term appears frequently in historical and design contexts: mid-20th century modern furniture, mid-20th century American politics.
Boundaries are fuzzy—some extend it from the late 1930s through the early 1970s depending on context.
- Abstract ExpressionismGestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
- DecolonizationEnding foreign imperial rule
- drive-in movieOutdoor cinema for automobiles
- World War IISecond global military conflict
Rosie the Riveter · Korean War · Cold War · Rock and Roll · poodle skirt · Vietnam War · Marshall Plan · Warsaw Pact · Counterculture · Cuban Missile Crisis · Existentialism · polio vaccine · hydrogen bomb · duck and cover · red scare · Cuban Revolution · Iron Curtain · Sputnik
mid-20th centuryantiquity
Great age, ancient era
ancient times · ancient · medieval · prehistoric era · prehistoric
mid-20th centuryVictorian era
Britain under its longest-reigning queen
turn of the century · contemporary · early 20th century · Edwardian era · fin de siècle
mid-20th centurydigital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · pre-industrial · Victorian · Bronze Age · Stone Age
middle, midway, midpoint, midnight, midday, midst, twentieth, twenty, century