page_title: 1950s
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: 1950s / Popular culture / Sports
caption_attribution_description: English: Paavo Nurmi lights the fire at the Olympic games in Helsinki 1952.According to the copyright council as the photograph is regarded a photographic image, not a work, and copyright thus has expired. Suomi: Helsingin olympialaiset 1952. Paavo Nurmi sytyttää olympiatulen Olympiastadionilla avajaisissa.
context_page_description: The 1950s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.
  By its end, the world had largely recovered from World War II and the Cold War developed from its modest beginning in the late-1940s to a hot competition between the United States and the Soviet Union by the early-1960s.
  Clashes between communism and capitalism dominated the decade, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. The conflicts included the Korean War in the beginnings of the decade and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik 1. Along with increased testing of nuclear weapons, this created a politically conservative climate. In the United States, the Second Red Scare caused Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress and anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the decade. The beginning of decolonization in Africa and Asia took place in this decade and accelerated in the following decade.
context_section_description: Inaugural season of Formula One
caption: Paavo Nurmi and the Olympic flame in the opening ceremony of the 1952 Summer Olympics
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