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Dien Bien Phu
Dien Bien Phu Causes of the War Even with financial aid from the United States, French forces were defeated by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu and forced to surrender. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Unconstitutional The Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were unconstitutional and ordered the desegregation of public schools. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycott In response to the arrest of Rosa Parks, 90 percent of African Americans stayed off of buses. The city's ministers and leaders met and discussed about changing the boycott into a long-term campaign. -
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Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Governor Orval Faubus called the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African American students from entering Little Rock High School. -
Sit-in
Sit-in Four African American students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro and demanded equal lunch services. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election and defeated Richard Nixon. -
Alliance for Progress
Picture Alliance for Progress Address John F. Kennedy proposed the Alliance for Progress, in which the United States gave $20 billion in grants and loans and called upon the Latin American governments to provided $80 billion in investment funds for their economies. -
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Thaw in Cold War
Treaty With an agreement with the Soviet Union, John F. Kennedy signed a limited test-ban treaty in Moscow. -
March on Washington
I Have a Dream More than 200,000 civil rights demonstrators participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. During this event, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B, Johnson became president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. -
The Great Society
Picture Message to Congress Great Society John proposed the Great Society program, supplying aid to education and Medicare, an antipoverty war, removal of obstacles to voting rights, etc. -
Assassination of Malcom Ex
Assassination Malcom Ex was shot by members of the Nation of Islam at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. -
Selma March
Bloody Sunday 600 civil rights marchers were stopped at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas. The marchers retreated back to Selma. -
National Advisory Commission
Picture Excerpts from the Kerner Report Johnson established the National Advisory Commission in response to the racial disorders in Newark in Detroit. -
Tet Offensive
Picture Tet Offensive Tet Offensive North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong forces ferociously attacked Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, during the Tet holiday. -
Assassination of MLK, Jr.
Picture Assassination Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot by a gunman at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Richard Nixon
Picture 1968 Election Richard Nixon Richard Nixon became president in 1968 election, defeating Hubert Humphrey by a narrow margin. -
New Federalism
Picture New Federalism Introduced by Nixon, the New Federalism policy sought to reverse the course to the centralization of power, and social engineering started under the New Deal and expanded during the Great Society. -
Vietnamization
Picture Vietnamization Speech Vietnamization The Vietnamization policy was announced by President Nixon, and 540,000 American troops were gradually pulled out of the war. -
Watergate Scandal
Watergate Burglars from CRP broke into the Democratic Party's National Committee offices to install or repair eavesdropping equipment. -
Hanoi Bombing
B-52 Hanoi Bombing Hanoi Bombing President Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi to disrupt North Vietnam's supplies and force them into peace talks. -
Paris Peace Accords
Picture Paris Peace Accords Excerpts Paris Peach Accords Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese officials signed an agreement to bring peace to Vietnam. Peace did not actually come until 1975. -
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Ford Pardons Nixon
Pardon On television, Ford made reasons why he pardoned Nixon foy any criminal activities he may have carried out during his presidency. -
