-
Period: to
Eisenhower is President
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a commanding general in World War II and became President in 1953. Eisenhower was popular with the people. In 1953 he brought peace along the South Korean border after signing a truce. In November 1955 Eisenhower was reelected, and he tried his best to maintain world peace. He also helped push desegregation during his presidency. In January 1961 Eisenhower left office. Source:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/dwightdeisenhower -
Geneva Peace Accords
The Geneva Accords created a border at the seventeenth parallel in Vietnam, and the election of 1956 was supposed to reunify Vietnam. France also withdrew from Vietnam. Source:
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/ Picture:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/Language/2009-04/428561.html -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was when African Americans stopped using the buses until they were desegregated and on November 23, 1955 the Supreme Court finally ruled segregated busing unconstitutional. Sources:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/54b.asp
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/chronology.html Picture:
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/montgomery-bus-boycott-1955-56 -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a black woman who refused to give up her seat in the bus during a time when African Americans were discriminated and made to sit in the back of the bus. This led to the Montegomery Bus Boycott.
Sources:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/54b.asp
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/chronology.html -
The Little Rock 9
On September 24, 1957 federal troops are sent to protect the nine African American students attending Little Rock, Ark., Central High School from mobs, violence and resistance to integrate. Source:
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/chronology.html
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ar1.htm -
Period: to
Vietnam War
-
SNCC
SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is founded. The students came up with projects and strategies independent from Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to end segregation. Sources:
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_student_nonviolent_coordinating_committee_sncc/
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/chronology.html Picture:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/profiles/49_sncc.html -
Period: to
John F Kennedy is President
John F. Kennedy became president in 1961. During his presidency he strived to improve the economy and promote equality. Kennedy also had to deal with the Cuban Missle Crisis and the Berlin Wall being built. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Source:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johnfkennedy -
Birmingham Protests
Protests are led by Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama and police use fire hoses and dogs on the protestors. Source:
http://millercenter.org/president/keyevents/kennedy
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/birmingham_1963.htm -
March on Washington
More than a quarter of one million people join in on the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. recites his "I Have a Dream" speech. Sources:
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/chronology.html
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/documented-rights/exhibit/section4/detail/washington-march1.html -
Birmingham Church Bombed
On September 15, 1963 a church is bombed killing four little girls who were attending Sunday school. Sources:
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/chronology.html
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm -
Period: to
Lyndon B Johnson is President
After John F Kennedy is assassinated Lyndon Johnson is promoted from vice president to president. Johnson made the Great Society program a focus for Congress in 1965. He worked towards desegregation and limited bombing in Vietnam so negotiations could take place. Johnson did not run for reelection and left office in 1969. Source:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/lyndonbjohnson -
Malcolm X Assassinated
February 21, 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam. Source:
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/Feb/On-this-Day--Malcolm-X-Was-Shot-Dead.html -
Tet Offensive
In January of 1968 a communist offensive, the Tet Offensive, was launched attacking 27 Sout Vietnamese cities including the capital, Saigon. Source:
Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006
Picture:
http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/vietnam/tet_battles/ -
My Lai Massacre
On March 16, 1968 a unit of the Americal Division's 11th Infantry Brigade arrived in My Lai where the 48th Viet Cong Battalion was thought to be. The American unit killed as many as 504 Vietnamese in the My Lai Massacre as they were met with no resistence. Source:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/vietnam/vietnam_mylai.cfm -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated on April 4, 1968 which led to great disorder. Sources:
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/chronology.html
Picture:
http://therougecollection.net/therouge/dr-kings-remembered-45-years-after-assassination/ -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 to end racial discrimination in the United States. Source:
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/chronology.html
Picture:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html -
Period: to
Richard Nixon is President
Nixon became president in 1969. During his presidency Nixon was able to reduce tensions with the China and the USSR with his visits to Beijing and Moscow. Nixon announced to end involvement in Indochina in 1973. The Watergate Scandal cause Nixon to resign on August 8, 1974. Source:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/richardnixon -
Vietnamization
Nixon announces his policy to withdraw US troops in South Vietnam over a period of time. The policy was called "Vietnamization." Source:
Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 Picture:
http://herndonapush.wikispaces.com/Chapter+32-+Vocab+and+AP+PARTS -
Period: to
Gerald R. Ford
-
Fall of Saigon
South Vietnam surrenders and Americans leave Vietnam. Source:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/timeline.htm Picture:
http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/saigon.htm
