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Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up her Seat
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks payed her bus fare and took her seat in the colored section of the bus, as buses were segregated. After a few stops the bus filled up and the bus driver moved the colored section of the bus back and forced the colored people sitting in the front to move to the back of the bus, to make room for the white passengers that boarded. Rosa Parks was an activist for colored rights, and refused to leave her seat. Parks was later arrested, and this sparked the Montgomery Bus -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961 a Cuban paramilitary group supported by America tried to overthrow Fidel Castro. The mission was a complete failure as it was stated by the Eisenhower Administration, but was placed in the hands of JFK after he became president. The Bay of Pigs encouraged Cuba to strengthen ties with the Soviet Union, and showed how much Cubans supported Castro. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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On October 16 1962 the United States sent U2 planes over Cuba after having suspicion that Cuba was setting up nuclear missiles, and preparing to attack the United States. The U2 Plane took clear pictures of the missiles and set quarantine around Cuba. The crisis ended when JFK reached an agreement with Khrushchev, and promised to remove missiles in Turkey if the Soviet Union remove missiles from Cuba. -
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door (Forrest Gump Event)
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On June 11, 1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace prevent African American students from entering the University of Alabama. The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas overruled that blacks and white were separate but equal, forcing public facilities to desegregate. Governor Wallace was against the segregation and refused to allow black students from entering the University. The students weren’t allowed in until intervention by the president, John F. Kennedy. -
John F. Kennedy Assassination (Forrest Gump Event)
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On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK was assassinated in a motorcade at Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas. Oswald was standing in the Texas Schoolbook Depository, and shot JFK who was accompanied by his wife, Governor John Connally and his wife. The warren commission was formed to investigate the shoot, but very little was found as Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby before he could stand trial. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Was Signed into Law
The civil Rights act of 1964 was a large step forward in the fight against discrimination. The Civil Rights act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in voting, education, and public facilities. This gave all blacks the right to vote and receive the same education as whites in schools, and prevented discrimination against sex allowing women to have equal opportunity employment as men -
Gulf of Tonken Resolution
On August 10, 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson, passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, where a US destroyer was destroyed by North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. This piece of legislation allowed Johnson to assist any South Asian country fighting against communism. Johnson was able to escalate the war in Vietnam without the approval from congress. -
My Lai Massacre
On March 16, 1968 members of the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division, entered a village and massacred around 500 unarmed men, woman and children. In November 1968 the public became aware of the massacre and this heighted anti-war sentiment in the United States. -
Assassination of Robet F. Kennedy (Forrest Gump Event)
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On June 5, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy was giving a speech to his supporters at the Ambassador Hotel after winning the Presidential primary election in California and South Dakota. As he was leaving the hotel he took a short cut through the Hotel’s Kitchen, and was shot three times by Sirhan Sirhan. -
First Man On the Moon (Forrest Gump Event)
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On July 20, 1969 America had successfully placed the first man on the moon. The mission was called Apollo 11 and was the fifth mission in the Apollo program. This ended the Space race between America and the Soviet Union and fulfilled JFK promise to have a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, through this mission. -
Watergate Scandal (Forrest Gump Event)
On June 17, 1972 five men were arrested for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Complex. The FBI began an investigation and found that the burglars possessed money that was marked for used by President Nixon’s Committee for the Re-election of the president. The FBI investigated the president and received testimony from the staff and recorded conversation of President Nixon covering up the incident. Before Nixon could be impeached he resigned -
The Attempted Assassination of Ronald Regan (Forrest Gump Event)
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On March 30, 1981 John Hinckly Jr. tried to assassinate Ronald Regan 69 days into his presidency. As Regan was leaving the Ford’s theater, the same place Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Hinckly shot six shots, missing Regan with all six shots, hitting members of the secret service, serverly injuring them but not killing anyone.
