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This law authorized the settlement of property loss claims by people of Japanese descent who were removed from the Pacific Coast area during World War II.
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The Geneva Accords was a document that separated Vietnam into north and south.
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Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who was murdered for flirting with a white woman in Mississippi.
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(1960s-1980s) This was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the Western world.
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The SDS was formed as an organization intended to establish a strong New Left movement.
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(MId 1960s) The hippies were a subculture that arose in the US in the mid 60s that derived from the Beatniks.
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John F. Kennedy won the election against Nixon on the Democratic side with a very narrow amount of votes.
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Kennedy gave permission to train Cuban exiles and launch a failed attack on Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
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The first freedom ride took place on May 4th, 1961 when 7 blacks and 6 whites took public buses from Washington DC to the deeply segregated south.
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(June 4 - November 9) Khrushchev demanded a treaty making the divisions of East and West Germany permanent. When Kennedy refused, Khrushchev responded by building the Berlin Wall around West Berlin.
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(October 15-28) The world was on the brink of nuclear war for thirteen days when Kennedy found Soviet missiles in Cuba. The crisis was resolved when Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in Cuba in exchange for the removal of US missiles in Turkey.
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In Birmingham, Alabama, the SCLC organized a protest that resulted in severe violence amongst the many young demonstrators and the police.
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President Kennedy was assassinated while campaigning in Dallas, Texas by a gunman who was believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald.
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When Kennedy was assassinated and announced dead, Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president on the United States.
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This was a piece of legislation that outlawed major forms of discrimination African Americans and women.
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The resolution was passed in Congess shortly after the attack on US ships and gave Johnson permission to do whatever he felt necessary against North Vietnam.
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This was a piece of legislation that outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as the poll tax and the literacy test.
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This act was created to empower the federal government to set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic safety.
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Richard Nixon was elected into office after Lyndon Johnson and eventually became the first president to resign from office.
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A series of attacks on several locations throughout South Vietnam were launched by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops.
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US forces went into My Lai searching for Viet Cong and found none, but still killed women, children, and the elderly.
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President Johnson announced on television that he would not be running for reelection after his term had ended.
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Martin Luther King, Jr, a major civil rights movement leader, was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles, California after winning primary elections for the Democratic nomination for president.
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This was an oil spill that occured in the Santa Barbara Channel in Southern California that was the largest oil spill in the country at the time.
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The US invaded Cambodia in order to disrupt the supply lines of the Viet Cong and to destroy their bases in Cambodia being used to support operations in South Vietnam.
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This amendment was passed in order to ensure equality between men and women.
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The Paris Peace Accords intended to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.
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About 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement followers seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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This federal law was passed to limit the amount of control the president has over military actions without permission from Congress.
