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French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva.
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Segregation in public schools ruled unconstitutional.
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Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.
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Martin Luther Kind Jr holds a meeting at his church.
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Supreme Court affirms segregation on buses to be unconstitutional.
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King and other ministers form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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The school board in Little Rock, Arkansas won a court oreder that required nine African American students to be admitted to Central High.
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Four students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina and ordered coffee at a whites only bar. When they were refused, more African-Americans came in to sit in
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March was organized by a group of civil rights leaders, which included between 200-300 thousand people and also included Martin Luther King Jr's speech.
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Outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women.
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Was a joint resolution which the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135 and the destroyer USS Maddox on August 2 and an alleged second naval engagement between North Vietnamese boats and the US destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy on August 4 in the Tonkin Gulf.
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US troops arrive in Vietnam.
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Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
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purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow.
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Groups gather to protest vietnam war in Chicago
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Last troops leave Vietnam.
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The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. Marked the end of the Vietnam War.
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The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. Marked the end of the Vietnam War.
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Limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination