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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat which started the Bus Boycott -
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Vietnam War
The U.S. cited the policy of containment to for involvement in the Vietnam War. Many lives were lost and the country ended up falling to Communism. -
Civil Rights Act 1956
Prohibited segregation in public places -
The Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students who went to school in Little Rock -
NASA Created
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Fidel Castro
New Cuban government under Fidel Castro -
Greensboro
African Americans staged a sit-in at a whites only lunch counter in Woolworths department store and eventually forced its desegregation. -
John F. Kennedy
Becomes President -
Berlin Wall
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins -
Freedom Rides
African Americans would sit in integrated patterns on buses to end segregation -
Bay of Pigs
CIA trained Cuban exiles aided by the U.S. government invaded Cuba and attempted to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. It failed an was a embarrassment to the Kennedy Administration -
James Merideth
First African American to attend the University of Mississippi -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In response to the United State's long time missile basis in Turkey, the Soviets deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Resolved when the Soviets agreed to remove missiles from Cuba if the U.S. removed their missiles from Turkey and formal pledge to not invade Cuba. -
Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream Speech"
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Becomes President -
JFK Assasinated
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24th Amendment
Prohibited poll tax -
Civil Rights Act 1964
Prohibited the discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion and national origin. -
Johnson's Great Society
Reforms to end poverty and racial injustices -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assasinated
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Richard Nixon
Becomes president. Appealed to people's desire for "law and order" -
Vietnamization
Nixon began slowly withdrawing troops from Vietnam. -
26th Amendment
Gives 18 year olds the right to vote -
Pentagon Papers Published
Revealed that the government had lied to the American people about involvement in war -
Watergate Break In
Four men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters -
Paris Peace Accords
Mark the official end to the Vietnam War -
OPEC Embargo
Because of the United State's support for Israel, OPEC placed an oil embargo on the U.S. -
Nixon Resigns
Resigned as a result of the Watergate Scandal. The first and only president to resign from office. -
Gerald Ford
Becomes president