Kyle Kelley

Timeline created by DoomCannon93 in History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
04/27/1954	The Geneva Accords	Vitenam was divided along the 17th parallel with Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnimh in control of N. Vietnam and a pro-wester reginme in control of the South
05/07/1954	Dien Bien Phu	The defeat of French forces in Vietnam
05/17/1954	Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	Linda Brown, a young African American girl, was refused admittance into her neighborhood school and her parents sued the school board. It was unanimously decided that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
02/26/1955	Southern Manifesto	101 Southern members of Congress signed the southern manifesto which denounced the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board ruling as a clear abuse of judicial power and pledged to use all lawful means to reverse the decision.
05/31/1955	Brown vs. Board of Education follow-up	The Supreme Court inadvertantly encourages white resistance when ordering schools to proceed "with all deliberate speed"
12/01/1955	Rosa Parks	Rosa Parks refuses to stand up for whites on a Montgomery bus and is taken into custody
12/05/1955	Meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church	Dr. King encourages the people to proceed with a peaceful protest
11/01/1956	Supreme Court Segregation Decision	The Supreme Court affirmed the dicision of a special three-judge panel declaring Alabama's laws requiring segregation on buses unconstitutional.
02/01/1960	Greensboro lunch counter sit-in	Students in Greensboro, North Caroline stage a sit-in at a local lunch counter. Sit-ins spread and students eventually form the SNCC in April
01/20/1961	Kennedy's Inauguration	Kennedy takes office and from 1961 to late 1963, sends around 13,000 more troops into South Vietnam
05/04/1961	Freedom Riders	James Farmer organizes the first Freedom Riders to desegregate interstate bus travel
08/03/1963	Voting Rights Act	Congress passes the Voting Rights Act, making it illegal to not allow people to vote based on race or color
08/28/1963	I Have A Dream	King delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech suring the March on Washington in support of the new civil rights act
11/01/1963	Vietnamese generals sieze power in the South	They overthrow Diem and execute him. South Vietnam's government continues to grow increasingly weak and unstable
07/02/1964	Civil Rights Act	In the United States, it outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation
08/02/1964	President Johnson announces N. Vietnam torpedo attacks	Two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin were destroyed. The attack was seen as unprovoked and American aircraft attacked N. Vietnames ships and naval facilities.
08/07/1964	The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution	The Senate and House passed this, authorizing the president to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attac against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." Basically, Congress had handed its war powers over to the president.
03/02/1965	Operation Rolling Thuner	President Johnson expanded American involvement by beginning a sustained bombing compaign agaainst North Vietnam. Later this month, combat troops will be sent.
05/21/1965	National Teach In	Students and teachers discussed the issues surrounding the war aand reaffirmed their reasons for opposing it. This was one of the largest, held over radio, listened to by over 100,000 anti-war demonstrators.
01/30/1968	Tet Offensive	The Vietnamese New Year, The Vietcong launched a massive surprise attack on most American airbases in South Vietnam and most of the South's major cities. It was a military loss, but a political victory for the Vietcong.
06/08/1969	Nixon's Plans	Nixon announced the withdrawal of 25,00 soldiers. He increased air-strikes against N Vietnam and began secretely bombing Vietcong sactuaries in nighboring Cambodia.
07/01/1971	26th Amendment	All citizens 18 and older can vote. This was fueled by the belief that, if draftees were old enough to fight, they were old enough to vote.
04/30/1975	US Involvement in Vietnam Ends	Retraction of US troops from Vietnam
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05/01/1963 to 05/31/1963	Birmingham Protests	Martin Luther King Jr. leads protests in Birmingham, Alabama. Police assault and protestors, along with King, are jailed