1960's timeline

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    Geneva Confrence

    The goal of the conference was to work out a peace agreement between France, Vietnam, Soviet Uniton, United States, Great Britian, Laos, China, Cambodia, and it was held in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education

    The warren courts stated "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal". But this ruling led the way for integration
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Rossa Parks was arrested because she wouldnt give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery Alabama, This action sparked the montgomery buss boycott movement.
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    Wanting to integrate schools and an angry mob of white students and harrassed the black students at ittle rock central high.
  • Sit-In Protest

    Sit-In Protest

    4 students in Greensboro North Carolina began a sit in after being denied service, the next 3 days got 63 more students to sit in with them
  • Election of 1960

    Election of 1960

    Kennedy was running agains Nixion.People thought that Nixon sounded better on the radio than on the debates on TV.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Cuban exiles failed to destroy Cubas airforce. Kennedy wanted to take down Castro and stop all communist threats and spread in Latin America
  • Freedom riders

    Freedom riders

    A group of freedom riders were firebombs my an angry mob in Anniston, Alabama.
  • Moon Landing Proposal

    Moon Landing Proposal

    Kennedy made the proposal to congress because soviets have already gotten a man into space, and he wanted to maintain the worlds prestige.
  • Berlin Crisis

    Berlin Crisis

    Kennedy wouldnt send missiles into Cuba because he thought it would make Khrushchev retaliate in Europe. Kennedy met with Khrushchev to make peace but they closed all the crossing points on the Berlin wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Soviets put defensive missiles in Cuba and a U-2 plane took pictures of them, Soviets denied them.
  • Cuban Missile Response

    Cuban Missile Response

    U.S. made a deal with soviets to not invade Cuba if missiles were taken down.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    It was one of the largest Civil rights movements. It was a day long rally, Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" speech
  • Kennedy Assassination

    Kennedy Assassination

    Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from the 6th floor of the schoolbook depository building in Texas.
  • Jack Ruby shot Lee Oswald

    Jack Ruby shot Lee Oswald

    while police were transfering Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby shot him before police got to question Oswald.
  • War on Poverty

    Johnson declared war on poverty. Job corps was started, along with VISTA, which is a volunteer in service to America.
  • Crisis in Mississippi

    Crisis in Mississippi

    Andrew Goodman went with 2 CORE workers, they were arrested for speeding. When they were let out they were never heard from again.Johnson sent out a massive search and was found dead
  • civil rights act of 1964

    civil rights act of 1964

    banned gender discrimination in employment. the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision enforeced the laws.
  • USS Maddox was attacked

    USS Maddox was attacked

    North Vietnamese attacked a US navey destroyer by torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonin.
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    It allowed the president to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of US."
  • Jack Weinburg Arrested

    Jack Weinburg Arrested

    Jack WEinburg was arrested for tresspassing while collecting donations for CORE. Students surrounded police car for hours.
  • 1964 election

    Johnson was running against Berry Goldwater, Johnson won in the biggest lanslide victory of the centrury
  • Free Speech Movement

    Free Speech Movement

    Couple weeks after Jack Weinburg got arrested, thousands of students had a sit-in in the administration building. These movements at Berkeley started the Free Speech Movement. Students used civil diobediance to protest.
  • Assassination of Malcom X

    Assassination of Malcom X

    He was assassinated because he was thought to be a traitor. he was a musilum minister and a human rights activist.
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    Johnson wanted to weaken North Vietnam will to fight, and to prove to South Vietnam the US's commitment to their independance/
  • Selma March

    Selma March

    600 Africans began a 54 mi. long march when the police blockaded their way and fired tear gas onto the crowds.
  • Ho Chi Mihn Trail

    Ho Chi Mihn Trail

    It was a trial that the Vietcong would use To send troops and weapons. It was invisible to air force. To solve that the US sprayed the area to distroy vegitation and to expose the trail, then tried bombing it too, but failed. Overall it increased the flow of supplies and troops and more South Vietnam joined vietcong.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    President, King, Farmer, Parks and other civil right advocates witnessed the signing of the voting rights act of 1965, and that gave federal government the right to break down barriors to black voting rights
  • Immigration Act of 1965

    Immigration Act of 1965

    It caused Latino population to increase and it gave immigrants preference to live with relatives in the country
  • Assassination of King

    Assassination of King

    James Ray killed king while he was on a balcony
  • Black Panther Party

    Black Panther Party

    The party started in Oakland California, it called for violent acts for liberty of Africans.
  • Poor Peoples Campaign

    Poor Peoples Campaign

    It was an effort from all races to eliminate poverty. They visited many cities to gain support for the cause.
  • Tet Offencive

    Tet Offencive

    The vietcong attacks marked the start, it was going to be a series of massive attackes over the span of a month of fighting. Eventually the US retook the vietcongs captured cities.
  • Vietcong Assult, US Embassy

    Vietcong Assult, US Embassy

    19 Vietcong fighters killed 2 american MP officers and tried taking over the main embassy building. 5 americans died and 2 vietcong died. they attacked over 12 military bases and over 100 cities.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Civil Rights Act of 1968

    It banned discrimination in the sales of housing and renting houses. It sped up the integration of schools and partys of the city.
  • Nixon is President

    Nixon is President

    Nixon won 301 electoral votes which gave him the mandate, except he didnt get more than half the votes because of a good 3 party. other than that it was a close between him and Humphrey
  • National Chicano Liberation Youth Conference

    National Chicano Liberation Youth Conference

    Gonzales and Crusades for justice got together and started El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan and that was to reclaim lands of the southwest.
  • Woodstock Music and Art Fair

    Woodstock Music and Art Fair

    4 day long festival with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and Greatful Dead. It was marked as the celebration of the countercultural movement.
  • Troops in Cambodia

    Troops in Cambodia

    Nixion annonced to the public that he will be sending troops to Cambodia. After that the war protesters intensified
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    Wild Protest

    May 2- anti war protesters set the Reserve Officer's training building on fire. Ohio governor sent in national guard to keep everything under control.
    May 4- Troops told a group of kids to go away while on rally. It started getting violent 4 studens killed and 9 others injuerd
    May 13 similar thing happened at Jackson State College in Mississippi. Police fired at protesters and killed 2 and injuerd 9
  • Andrew Young

    Andrew Young

    Andrew Young became Georgias first African congressmen since the Reconstruction. He was apart of that for about 4 years
  • Final Decision of Roe V Wade

    Final Decision of Roe V Wade

    banned abortion, court decided it violated right to privacy. Supporters- not equal until they can control when to have kids.
    Opposition- moral beliefs that fetals are sacred and should be protected.
  • Indian Seld-Determination and Education Assisstance Act of 1975

    Indian Seld-Determination and Education Assisstance Act of 1975

    Allowed indians to be taught their own education, health, and housing programs with that aid of government spending.
  • South Vietnam Surrendures

    South Vietnam Surrendures

    South Vietnam Surrendered. Then the north set up a Communist government in the South. in 2 decades it will be reunited.