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jackie robinson enters the mlb
in his debute he got walkedand scored a run to win the game and played first base -
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battle of dien bien phu
althuogh the french dominated in fire power the vietmin beat them with gorilla warfare -
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geneva accords
took place in geneva switserland in a way of uniting vietnam -
brown vs BOE
rulled desegregation in schools -
emmett till
2 white men kidnapped him from his home and beat him -
rosa parks
refused to give up her seat to a white man -
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montgomery bus boycott
since many blacks couldnt afford cars they road the bus and when the boycott started it took a huge chunk of them and money away -
sclc founded
the sclc was formed to coordinate and support non violence as a menthod of deseregation -
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freedom riders
13 riders left on a greyhound bus left to go from virgina to louisiana -
james merideth enters university of mississippi
meridith was the first black man to get accepted into ole miss -
i have a dream
mlk spoke in front of 250000 civil rights supporters on the steps of the lincon memorial -
civil rights act of 1964
it ended racial segrgation in schools work and in public -
gulf of tonkin incident
norht vietnamese sent torpedo boats to shoot the uss maddox but the us sent in 4 f8 crusaders and destroyed the boats -
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operation rolling thunder
aiarial bombardment by the u.s on sigon it was one of the most effective air defenses ever -
voting rights act or 1965
got rid of descriminaton for blacks voting -
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tet offensive
a series of attacks launched by south vietnam many were on u.s bases -
my lai massacre
the u.s army soilders marched into mele and killed over 400 people -
mlk assasination
james earl ray shot mlk witt remington 760 game master was promnounced dead at 705 that night -
lbj anounces he wont re-run
he served less then 24 months or kenedys term but riots cost him to not run agian -
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woodstock
32 acts preformend before an audience of 400000 people -
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pentagon papers
pentagon papers were realesed -
ending vietnam
nixion anounced that he was taking troops out of vietnam
