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Executive Order 8802
Executive Order 8802 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. -
Truman ordered desegregation in the military
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. -
selective service act of 1948
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US aid to french for Vietnam
United States military involvement in Vietnam begins as President Harry Truman authorizes $15 million in military aid to the French. American military advisors will accompany the flow of U.S. tanks, planes, artillery and other supplies to Vietnam. -
french lost 8-year war with Vietnam
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. It was, from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese. On September 2, 1945, hours after the Japanese signed their unconditional surrender in World War II, communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam. -
southeast Asia treaty organization (SEATO)
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. -
bus boycott
Rosa Parks didn’t give up her seat on the bus to a white man. after her arrest, there was a bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. -
congress “southern manifesto”
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little rock nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas -
Vietcong formed
The Việt Cộng, also known as the National Liberation Front, was a mass political organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia with its own army. Its founder was Nguyen Van Hieu. it became Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam; Vietnam Fatherland Front. -
NASA created
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics -
Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista
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Martin Luther King was freed
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JF Kennedy won the election
The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. -
Sit in protests
blacks ordered coffee and donuts and were refused so they protested by doing a sit in -
JFK took an aggressive stand
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US troops in Vietnam
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In March 1965, Johnson made the decision—with solid support from the American public—to send U.S. combat forces into battle in Vietnam. By June, 82,000 combat troops were stationed in Vietnam, and military leaders were calling for 175,000 more by the end of 1965 to shore up the struggling South Vietnamese army. -
Students for a Democratic Society formed
students for a Democratic Society (SDS), American student organization that flourished in the mid-to-late 1960s and was known for its activism against the Vietnam War. SDS, founded in 1959, had its origins in the student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy, a social democratic educational organization -
core staged a freedom ride
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The Freedom Rides were first conceived in 1947 -
the peace corps was created
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. Its official mission is to provide social and economic development abroad through technical assistance while promoting mutual understanding between Americans and populations served. -
Eisenhower authorized central intelligence agency
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bay of Pigs invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin wall made
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. -
James Meridith won a federal court case
James Meredith, an African American man, attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. Chaos soon broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
John Glenn 1rst American to orbit the earth
On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space. -
Birmingham jail
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Merideth graduated college
Merideth was the first African American to go to college. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in -
Medgar Evers assassinated
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Martin Luther King “I have a dream” speech
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States -
JFK assassinated
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
march on Washington
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Birmingham bombing
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“Hot Line” installed
The “hotline” was designed to facilitate communication between the president and Soviet premier. The establishment of the hotline to the Kremlin came in the wake of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the U.S. and U.S.S.R had come dangerously close to all-out nuclear war -
signed the nuclear test ban treaty
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diem removed from power
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civil rights act of 1964
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Gulf of Tonkin resolution
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freedom summer (SNCC)
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Malcolm X broke away from the nation of Islam
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24th amendment
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teachins start
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Operation rolling thunder
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bloody Sunday
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Malcolm X was shot and killed
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Selma march
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black panthers formed
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Black Power
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congress divided into hawks and doves
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billion dollar urban investment program
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race riot in Detriot New Jersey
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Fulbright had public hearings on the war
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Tet offensive
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RFK killed
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Nixion wins election.
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my Lai massacre
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Martin Luther King was assassinated
Martin Luther King went to Memphis Tennessee to speak and was shot and killed -
fair housing act
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fair housing act
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affirmative action
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1rst to moon
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war crossed over into Cambodia
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kent state and Jackson state killings
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26th amendment
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my lai became public and the Pentagon papers became public
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war power act
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Paris peace accord
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Vietnam is communists
