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Dien Bien Phu
Battle which would cut suply lines to French. Taken by the Vietminh. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Segregation unconstitutional in public schools. Ruling was unanimous. -
Rosa Parks
Boarded bus, and asked to move to rear but refused, was arrested sparking new uprisings in civil rights. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. started the boycott of the bus system because of their participation in segration. -
Geneva Accords
Divided Vietnam along the 17th Parallel. The west in control of the south, and the north controlled by Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh. -
Crisis in Little Rock
Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus defies federal government and places National Gaurd troops around school, restricting African Americans from entering. -
Civil Rights Legislation
Protect the right of African Americans to vote. -
Sit-ins at Woolworth's
Starting with 4 students, sit-ins exploded in use as a method of desegregation of restaurants and other public places. -
Kennedy Takes Over
Continued support of South Vietnam. Had to appear tough on communism to prove Democrats ability to deal with the issue. -
Kennedy Elected
Promoted Civil Rights Act, and named 40 African Americans to high level positions in the government. -
Emergence of Freedom Riders
In an attempt to desegragate the buses in the south, man African Americans rode south on interstate buses, protesting the segragation of the buses. -
Violence in Birmingham
MLK took protest to Birmingham, in order to up the stakes, and requiring the government to take a stand on the issue of segragation. -
George Wallace Announcement
Declared segragation forever and always in the south. -
Overthrow of Diem
Weakened South Vietnams Government. Forced US to become even more involved. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Gave federal government power to prevent racial disrimination and made segregation illegal in most public places. -
Selma March
March on Selma, Alabama with the focal point being the right to vote. -
Credibility Gap
Making large gains in Vietnam, while media covered much less optimistic accounts of the war, less and less people believed we were doing as well as we claimed. -
Tet offensive
Suprise attack on military bases in Vietnam, during the Vietnamese New Year Tet. -
Vietnamization
Plan which involved US withdrawl of troops with the South Vietnamese assuming more of the fighting. -
Pentagon Papers
Leaked information about views of government officials in the White House, who publicly criticized the war, but were secretly against it. -
26th Amendment
Allowed people 18 years of age right to vote, which is where a lot of the opposition to the war was. -
United States Pulls Out
Signed aggreement "ending the war and restoring the peace in Vietnam." -
South Vietnam Falls
North Vietnam launched a full scale attack on the South. Without US support the south fell to communism.