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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
The warren courts stated "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal". But this ruling led the way for integration -
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
Wanting to integrate schools and an angry mob of white students and harrassed the black students at ittle rock central high. -
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
Kennedy was running agains Nixion.People thought that Nixon sounded better on the radio than on the debates on TV. -
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
A group of freedom riders were firebombs my an angry mob in Anniston, Alabama. -
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
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
Soviets put defensive missiles in Cuba and a U-2 plane took pictures of them, Soviets denied them. -
Cuban Missile Response
U.S. made a deal with soviets to not invade Cuba if missiles were taken down. -
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
Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from the 6th floor of the schoolbook depository building in Texas. -
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
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
banned gender discrimination in employment. the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision enforeced the laws. -
USS Maddox was attacked
North Vietnamese attacked a US navey destroyer by torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonin. -
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 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
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
He was assassinated because he was thought to be a traitor. he was a musilum minister and a human rights activist. -
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
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
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
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
It caused Latino population to increase and it gave immigrants preference to live with relatives in the country -
Assassination of King
James Ray killed king while he was on a balcony -
Black Panther Party
The party started in Oakland California, it called for violent acts for liberty of Africans. -
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 became Georgias first African congressmen since the Reconstruction. He was apart of that for about 4 years -
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
Allowed indians to be taught their own education, health, and housing programs with that aid of government spending. -
South Vietnam Surrendures
South Vietnam Surrendered. Then the north set up a Communist government in the South. in 2 decades it will be reunited.
