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The Timeline

By Flynn

  • Dien Bien Phu

    The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries.

  • West Germany admitted to NATO

    A decisive turning point in the history of Europe. Germany is once again considered a power country of Europe.

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks stood up to white authority and the racist thinking of the time by refusing to be treated different from white people. She chose not to move to the back of the bus and by doing so marked her place in history.

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    Segregation of public schools was deemed unconstitutional and in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

  • Little Rock High School

    One of the most important events in African-American Civil Rights. Began the integration of schools in America.

  • Greensboro Sit-Ins

    Four college freshman began a series of sit-in at a Wolworth's grocery store that refused to serve blacks. Their actions eventually lead to a change in the store policy.

  • U-2 Spy Plane Shotdown

    American spy plane shot down over Soviet Russia. Tension between the countries is heightened and a stronger anti-communist approach is taken by the U.S.

  • Civil Rights March on Washington

    Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his historic, "I Have a Dream" speech. The march is credited for helping to pass the Civil Rights Act.

  • Civil Rights Act

    The act outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation.

  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    rResponse to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron and the destroyer USS Maddox.

  • U.S. Troops arrive in Vietnam

    3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam.

  • Voting Rights Act

    The act outlawed discriminatory voting practices responsible for the disenfranchisement of African Americans.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination

    Martin Luther King, Jr. was a major leader and organix=zer of the Civil Rights movement. His death, athough a significant loss to the African-American cause, was a rallying cry for the movement.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    The 1968 act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, and national origin.

  • Tet Offensive

    Regular and irregular forces of the People's Army of Vietnam fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies.

  • Invasion of Cambodia

    The invasion of Cambodia was a U.S. campaign for the U.S. military to defeat anestimated 40,000 Vietnamese trops in Cambodia.

  • Kent State Protesters Killed

    In the aftermath of the American Invasion of Cambodia on April 30, 1970, four students were killed at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 in Ohio, as well as two students at Jackson State College in Mississippi.

  • U.S. Troops leave Vietnam

  • Fall of Saigon

    The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam under communist rule.