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Before the war even erupted, the Vietnamese began battling the French Rule.
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The French surrender to the Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phie.
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Rosa Parks takes a stand for herself and every other African American in the U.S. and refuses to give her seat up for a white man. This starts the Bus Boycott.
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The SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) is created with Martin Luther King Jr. as their leader.
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The Little Rock Nine are escorted by the National Guard for their first day at an integrated school.
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Fidel Castro comes in to power in Cuba after two years of guerrilla war.
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Communist leaders in North Vietnam decide to supply Vietnam Rebels with weapons.
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Fidel Castro declares Cuba's victory against Fulgencio Batista.
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Four college students begin a sit-in after denied service because of their race.
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Fidel Castro signs a trade agreement with the Soviet Union.
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Unmarked U.S. bombers flown from Nicaragua by cuban exiles, fail to destroy Cuba's air force.
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The Soviet Union launches their first human into space in just one orbit. The U.S. also achieved this goal a year later.
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Thirteen vounteers left Washington D.C. heading for New Orleans to use the local bus stations to see how they would be treated. They recieved mild harassment and ten days after they got there, one bus was swormed by a mob of locals.
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John Glenn is the first U.S. american to orbit the Earth. Only a year after the Soviet Union.
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The 24th Amendment was created. It banned states from taxing citizens when voting and it made it to the Constitution on January 1964.
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U.S. concider nuclear war because of the Cuban Missle Crisis.
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The first pictures from U.S. U-2's flight over Cuba show missles they are in possession of.
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Martin Luther King Jr. along with other members at a sit-in were arrested. After thrown in jail, that's when King wrote his famous, Letter from Birmingham Jail.
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A march on Washington was held to speak for the needs of jobs and freedom. It was the largest civil rights demonstration to be held.
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The South Vienamese plotters murder President Ngo Dihn Diem.
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Riding in a convertible, with no protection, through Dallas, Texas, President Kennedy was shot and killed.
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Vice President Johnson was sworne into presidency only hours after the President's death.
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Only his first day as President Johnson, he pushes Kennedy's anit-poverty plans ahead.
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Vietcong is announced that they control 40% of South Vietnam.
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Andrew Goodman goes missing from the Freedom Summer Program after being put in jail with two other CORE workers.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. It banned discrimination in public accomidations along with employment.
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President Johnson presents on television that the USS Maddox was attacked by North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution is approved by Congress. It allowed the President to "take all the nessessary measures to repel armed attack."
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Jack Weinberg was areested for taking donations for CORE. But for 32 hours, hundreds of students surrounded the police car, making them unable to leave.
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Over six hundred officers arrest about 800 students that have been protesting on a local campus.
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The Selma Campaign was created to allow African Americans the right to vote along with the whites.
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The Selma March begins, also called the Montgomery March. Activists make they're way along 600 blocks and 54 miles.
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The Selma March that began on March 7th, not continues when Martin Luther King Jr. joins along with the other protestors. It only leads down the the base of the bridge, not crossing it.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed and agreed upon a large majority of the court room.
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Stokley Carmichael was put in charge, new leader of the SNCC, taking John Lewis' place.
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After starting the Mississippi Freedom March- from Memphis down to Jackson, James Merideth was shot in the back of the leg by Aubrey Norvell.
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The March Against Fear began. It expressed the aggressive action from Stokley Carmichael.
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The Black Panther Party was established in Oakland, California.
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In Detroit, Michigan, 43 lives were taken in only a six day riot.
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January 30th marks the Start of Tet (The Vietnamese New Year)
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Delegates from the United States and North Vietnam meet in Paris.
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There were about 60 Brown Beret groups. But by 1972, they were disbanded because of several demonstrations that turned violent.
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President Nixon orders troops into Cambodia making the United States citizens even more upset.
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A fire was set to an ROTC building during an Antiwar Demonstration at Kent. State University.
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The North Vietnamese start a major invasion of South Vietnam, because the U.S. wanted all North Vietnamese troops out of South Vietnam.
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U.S. soldiers killed about 300 Sioux beforehand, but now, they are banned from activities on the reservation.
