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Eisenhower
Elected in 1953, he presided over most of the 50's. He was a well loved and beloved president, and spent some of his presidency for civil rights, but not his all. Passed the harder presidential problems on to Kennady as he left office in 1961.
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Vietnam
Fall of Dien Bien Phu was the fall of vietnam from the French. It was significant because France was the only nation to keep its colonies and thats why Vietnam even started. -
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Happenings
APUSH for jeanine, la frechie -
Brown vs. Board of education
Sumpreme court ruled that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks sparks montegomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white man. Leading the boycott is Martin Luther King Jr. who becomes the unofficial face to the civil rights movement. The bus boycott was eventually succesful. -
Little rock nine
Nine colored students volunteered to be integrated to a white school. The governer at first sent troops to block them from getting to school while letting mobs nip at their heels. Eisenhower got wind and sent troops to let them into school. recieved federal protection until deemed safe. Only one was ever expelled and that was for poaring chili on a boys head for calling her names. -
Domestic policy & problems eisenhower
-Little rock nine
-Eisenhower in his farewell address encouraged military strength however warned against too much military spending -
Sit in movement/ SNCC
Sit in movement begins in North Carolina and eventually results in SNCC(april). Student nonviolent coordinating comitee
sat in at restauraunts and cafes and demanded to be sered. If they werent served, they sat there waiting to be. -
Kennady
Considered very handsome, key to his victory for elections, John F. Kennady presided in a short 3 years over some of the most stressful times of America. He presided over the bay of pigs, Cuban missle crisis, and controversial civil rights. His resounding work was silenced like many other leaders in that decade, by an assasins bullet.
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Freedom riders
To protest discrimination, blacks and whites tested new laws provideding for equal transportation by riding busses down to the south. -
college
James meredith, became the first black student ever at University of Mississippi. The effort to get him scholed took 5000 federal troops to protect him -
Domestic policy & problems Kennady
New Frontier- Announced and started and supported programs and goals dealing with astro-physics, outerspace and eventually the moon.
Placed his brother, Robert Kennady as attorney general, who fought organized crime
-tax cuts
-proposed civil rights bill
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Bommingham(burminham)
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested and jailed. Protests begin and fire-hoses and police-dogs are called in to demorallize and attack protesters. Videos/ pictures of the violence was put into news around the world disgusting everyone, and caused the pressuring the president to do something about it. He eventually brought an end to it.
On Aug. 28 (at Washington DC) MLKJ gives his famous "I have a dream speech."
On September 15th, four girls wekilled when attending sunday school and a bomb blew up. -
Johnson
Took oath after kennady's assasination, this man was a very stubborn dude. He had to have every thing his way, and if you disagreed, he got in your face... literally. Honestly out of all the presidents, I identify myself with him the most, beause he's a good guy who tried to do the right. He did a lot of things for civil rights, building up the nation with his "great societ" legislation and what not. Imake giant blunders. unfortunatly for him, his was bigger and its name was Vietnam Continued... -
1964 for blacks
The newly passed 24th ammendment abolishes poll tax.
CORE and SNCC organize gigantic movement to get blacks to vote.Its called Freedom summer, where massve amounts of blacks went to the polls.
Newly passed Civil rights act of 1964 abolishes discrimination based on color gender religion or national origin.
Then the murder of 3 freedom summer workers in mississippi happened, huge FBI investigation undertook to find out that city officials had handed the three over to be killed by the KKK. -
Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution came from the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The resolution basically gave a reason for LBJ to send troops to Vietnam. Later published in the "pentagon papers", it was found that the events starting the war were dramatized and was a lie to go to war -
Vietnam
Escalation of the war in response to communist escalation caused over 200,000 recruits sent in that year -
Black Militancy
Malcom X was shot to death. He embodied black militantcy of the decade. He was a converted muslim who supported for a seperate african nation in the US.
Bloody sunday in montegomery after police hospitalized 50 marchers in protest.
-Race riots in LA
-Voting rights act of 1965 makes it easier for blacks to vote -
Black Panthers
The black panthers formed due to the impatience of younger blacks for full equality to come around. They supported more of Malcom X's ideals and in a coined phrase "Black Power." -
Domestic policy & problems Johnson
The Great society- almost as important as FDR's new deal programs in terms as domestic policy. Many new programs emerged from this era, however the spending ushered a crisis in the 70's.
Another New civil rights bill and tax cut were passed -
MLKJ
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death after forshadowing his death in a very good speach the night before. Influential civil rights leader and studied in Thoreau and Ghandhi, he supported non-violent marches and noncooperation. Ultimately he had one of the biggest affects on the civil rights movement. -
Vietnam
The Communist Offensive of Tet 1968 was where all american installations were attacked on the the Viatnamese new year called Tet. In the end, Americans pushed them back and sustained military victory however it took a plunge in moral both at the front and at home. -
Nixon
Ohh poor old tricky Dick. he was once a staunch anti-communist warrior, the greatest in the hall. When president he served the Americans with his heart and soul. However that heart and soul was not a trusting one for the warrior fought like he was always under siege. He soared to heights through his foreign policy by bringing detente through pitting China and Russia against eachother; however his seige mentality brought him down in the Watergate scandal. 'http://http://www.whitehouse.gov/about -
Domestic policy & problems Nixon
HOLY CRAP ITS WATER GATE!!!!!
Basically a break in to rig the democratic national convention was dicovered and Nixon tried to cover it up when he found out. In the process he illegally obsructed justice, used the FBI and lied to the face of the public. He was caught, the other presidents weren't, so he resigned before he could be impeached.
He also passed anti crime laws and envirenmental laws and programs.
He oversaw putting a man on the moon. -
Vietnam
Last of the U. S. Combat troops left Vietnam and the South Vietnamese military was responsible for the War. The process was coined "vietnamization." 1975 Fall of Saigon, North Vietnam launched huge invasion in which it over-ran South Vietnam. -
Domestic policy & problems Ford
Geralds most remembered domestic problem or mistake was the pardoning of Nixon.
He also tried to curb inflation through vetoing spending bills and shifted to measures aimed at stimulating the economy and he aided small buisnesses -
Gerald Ford
Good ole Jerry. I like this guy, I lied before about identifing with Johnson, because this guy was a really good guy. No scandals, no lies, probably because he was an Eagle Scout and doglover. One of the most controversial things he did as President was padon Nixon. Alot of peeople didn't like that. The second one was aiding Israel with 2 billion dollars of aid against an Egyptian offensive. He also saw the end to the Vietnam War, though it was unwilling as he wanted to aid the South Vietnamese.
