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The Vietminh defeated the French, forcing them to withdraw from Indochina.
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Supreme Court ruled unanimusly that segregation in public school was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up a spot on the bus for whites; this surged the civil rights movement.
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Aferican Americans refused to ride on busses until the supreme court declared segration on busses as unconstitutional.
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Nine African American students integrated into a white school causing much unrest to the point of the National Guared coming in.
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Four Aferican American college students sat at in a segrated restaurant until they were served.
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Governor Wallace blocked two African Americans from integrating until federal marshals ordered him to move.
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More than 200,000 demonstrators met near the Lincoln Memorial for freesom and equality.
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Diem was overthrown after several Vietnamese generals plotted the overthrow.
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Eight Americans were killed and President Johnson bombed North Vietnam 14 hours later.
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Congress passed this law to help stop segregation and discrimination.
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Senate and House authorized the prsedint to go to war if necessary.
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President Johnson increased American involvement by conducted a sustained bombing campaign.
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Dr. King and SCLC marched from Selma to Montgomery for equal rights.
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Students and faculty members joined to discuss the war's issues and reaffirm their opposition.
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This act helped Afrrican Americans to vote.
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Guerilla fighters attacked most American airbases in South Vietnam and most of the South's major cities.
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Nixon announced the withdrawal of 25,000 soldiers, but still kept a stong Amerrican presence in Vietnam.
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The United States promised to withdraw all troops and both sides exchanged prisoners of war.
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The North Vietnamese captured Saigon, South Vietnam's capital.