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Vietnam War
The Vietnamese had suffered under French colonial rule for nearly six decades when Japan invaded portions of Vietnam in 1940 -
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Living History Timeline
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Malcom X
After his parole he became a leader of The Nation of Islam. He was a great leader. -
Cold War
Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine which. In addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments. -
Martin Lurther King, Jr.
May 17: U.S Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in the public schools of America was unconstitutional
September 1: Martin Luther King is appointed pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Court stripped away constitutional sanctions for segregation by race. Made equal opportunity in education the law of the land. -
American History
The People's Republic of China lays siege on Quemoy and Matsu Islands; Eisenhower sends in Navy to demonstrate an invasion of Taiwan would not be permitted -
Joseph McCarthy-McCarthyism
Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government. In the hyper-suspicious atmosphere of the Cold War, insinuations of disloyalty were enough to convince many Americans that their government was packed with traitors and spies. -
Suez Crisis
Was a diplomatic and military confrontation between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw. -
The 'Little Rock Nine'
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Cold War
– Iraq receives support from the USSR beginning in the 14 July Revolution by overthrowing the Hashemite Monarchy.
Nov – Nikita Khrushchev demands the West to leave West Berlin in the second Berlin Crisis -
The Space Race
In 1959, the Soviet space program took another step forward with the launch of Luna 2, the first space probe to hit the moon. In April 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth, traveling in the capsule-like spacecraft Vostok 1. -
1960's College
Just as black power became the new focus of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, other groups were growing similarly impatient with incremental reforms. Student activists grew more radical. They took over college campuses, organized massive antiwar demonstrations and occupied parks and other public places. Some even made bombs and set campus buildings on fire. -
Freedom Riders
May 4: An integrated group of 'Freedom Riders' left Washington, DC on Greyhound buses, and, upon arrival near Anniston, Alabama, the bus was burned, and the riders were beaten
October 16: Martin Luther King meets with President Kennedy to gain his support for the civil rights movement.
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Cold War
Jul 25 – The UK, US, and USSR sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty, limiting the testing of nuclear weapons to nearly any place except underground.
Nov 2 – The CIA is suspected in the assassination coup of Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam. -
JFK
Nov 22 – JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Shot by a gun. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
The Beatles
The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, mark the start of the British Invasion (or, an increased number of rock and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular around the world, including the U.S.) -
Vietnamese Attack
North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, and President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. -
President Johnson
1964 – President Johnson proposes the Great Society, whose social reforms were aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s. -
Vietnam War
By November 1967, American troop strength in Vietnam was approaching 500,000 and U.S. casualties had reached 15,058 killed and 109,527 wounded. The Vietnam War was costing the U.S. some $25 billion per year, and disillusionment was beginning to reach greater sections of the taxpaying public. -
War Protest
The anti-war movement began mostly on college campuses, as members of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began organizing “teach-ins” to express their opposition to the way in which it was being conducted. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. He was shot at a hotel. -
Nixon/ Vietnamese
The optimistic ‘60s went sour in 1968. That year, the brutal North Vietnamese Tet Offensive convinced many people that the Vietnam War would be impossible to win. The Democratic Party split, and at the end of March, Johnson went on television to announce that he was ending his reelection campaign. -
Woodstock
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre (240 ha; 0.94 sq mi) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969. -
Vietnam War
President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia Tragedy at Ohio: National Guardsmen open fire on protesting students at Kent State University -
Disco Music/Culture
During the 1970s rock music dance clubs became extremely popular. Young people, wearing polyester bell-bottoms and platform shoes, lined up outside popular clubs for a chance to enter dance floors lit with bright, pulsing lights and dance to recorded music with a pounding beat. Disco was the word that described the clubs, the music, the dance style, and the fashions that grew out of the scene. -
Nixon
Break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.. Nixon Resigns. -
Cold War
The Maoist Khmer Rouge forcibly takes hold of Cambodia. Genocide is practiced by the Khmer that results to the “Killing Fields." -
Hippie Culture
Originally taken from ‘Hipster’, the term “hippie” was used to describe beatniks who found their technicolor heart in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco; children of the road who believed they should make love, not war. Their vocal opposition to the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War (1955-1975) and the increasingly rocky road to shared civil rights among all Americans led to this new, alternative form of activism.
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AIDS/HIV
AIDS is detected in California and New York.
The first cases are among gay men, then injecting drug users.
