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After World War II the French reclaimed Vietnam as a colony. Led by Ho Chi Minh the Vietnamese battled agianst the French and ended up defeating them using their gueirlla tactics.
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After the French surrenedered many powerful nations met in Switzerland to decide the future of Indochina. The conference agreed to seperate Vitenam at the 17th parrallel, giving the North to Ho Chi Minh and the South to Ngo Dinh Diem.
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After a year of boycotting trians the Supreme Court has declared that segregation on the bus is unconstitutional. The boycott started in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed. The group included 60 blakc ministers and was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Nine African American studetns were allowed to enter Little Rock Central High School after protests. They were allowed to enter guarded by the US Army.
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Four African Americans walked up to a whites only counter at a restaurant in Greensboro, NC. Despite threats and protests the students sat and waited patiently.
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President Kennedy becomes the youngest elected president defeating Richard Nixon by the closest margin in history. Kennedy came from a powerful Massachusetts family.
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Kennedy was inaugurated in Washington D.C on a 20 degree day. He addressed his theme of change. He became the youngest ever elected president.
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The Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to journey into space. This event fueled the space race between the Soviet Union and the USA. Kennedy then made the pledge that we would be the first to land on the moon.
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The Bay of Pigs was led by Cuban exiles trying to overthrow Castro's governement. The plan was a horrible disaster and Kennedy took full responsibility for it.
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The first freedom ride left Washington D.C. and was headed for New Orleans. The violence against the riders caused the civil rights movement to gain followers.
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This case was taken by the Warren Court led by Earl Warren. The case ruled that search warrants apply to state and local police and not just the federal government.
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The 24th Amendment was passed and submitted to the states for ratification. It benned the states from taxing citizens to vote.
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The Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan sparked the nation's women to revolt and seek change. Almost all the survey respondents who were women said they felt trapped by their domestic life.
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In Dallas, Texas President Kennedy was assasinated while riding in a parade. Lee Harvey Oswald was the assasin and was killed in custody. No one knows why Oswald decided to kill Kennedy.
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After President Kennedy was assasinated Lyndon B. Johnson became the new president of the United States. He took the oath while aboard the Air Force One shortly after the death of Kennedy.
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This civil rights piece of legislation banned all forms of discrimination at the workplace. It also foced the schools to be desegregated.
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An American boat sailing in the Gulf of Tonkin was attacked by Vietnamese troops in August. This incident gave President Johnson approval from Congress to become more invloved in the Vietnam War and stopping the Northern rebels from taking over the rest of the South.
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Jack Weinberg set up a table in a banned area to collect donations for CORE but then the police came to arrest him for trespassing. When the police got there hundreds of students surrounded the police car and would not let it move out. This demonstration grew to around 7,000 people with 500 cops.
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Lyndon Johnson took over his 2nd term in office defeating Barry Goldwater. Johnson's pledge was the Great Society and the War on Poverty. He was successful with passing several civil rights bills to help African Americans.
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The Free Speech Movement started on the campus of Cal. Berkley and the continued to many other college campuses across the nation. This was seen as the start of students fighting for their own freedoms.
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Operation Rolling Thunder which was a 3 year long bombing of North Vietnam begins. The US bombed bridges, buildings, and roads in hope of slowing down the North.
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The Selma March marked the emotional peak of the civil rights movement. The first march included 600 marchers who were attacked by local and state police, The second march 2,500 marches crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
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The Students for a Democratic Soceity led the First Antiwar Demonstration in Washington D.C. 20,000 memebers marched to the capitol with a petition for Congress.
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In August Congress declared that voting discrimination is unconstitutionl and banned the practice. This was a major piece of legislation passed during the Civil Rights.
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The Delano grpae stirke lasted for five years and was a major victory of the United Farm Workers. Later in the stirke the Mexican-American National Farmworkers Association led by Ceasar Chavez joined the strike.
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The Immigration Act of 1965 gave preference to immigrants with relatives that already are living in the country. With the passage of this law the number of Latinos living in America rose sharply in the 1960's.
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The National Organization for Women was created by 28 women gathering in Washington D.C. This organization fought gender discrimination in school, the workplace, and in the justice system.
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The Civil Rights movement in Chicago was one of Martin Luther Kings biggest faliures. The blacks in the north already had freedoms that King was protesting and the cops also did not harass the marchers so his movement gained no momentum.
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The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. This organization was founded to protect African Americans from police brutality.
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By the end of 1966 there were more then 385,00 troops stationed in Vietnam and the US was spending more then $2.5 billion dollars a month to support the war. This started the major involvement in the war for the US.
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A group of young college students in San Antonio, Texas formed MAYO. The goal of this organization was to gain pwoer for Latinos in the creation of a third political party.
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The Summer of Love marked the height of the hippie movement. Eventhough we were at war with Vietnam many of the hippies protested for peace and love. The city of San Francisco was the destination for most of these drug using hippies.
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This surprise attack launched by the North Vietnamese was exectued during a period when no attacks were to take place.The Vietcongs goal was to take every major southern city but the attack was stopped and the Vietcong were destroyed.
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On this day President Johnson has announced that he will not run for the presidency again. Part of the reason why he will not is because of the stress of the Vietnam War and also his growing unpopularity within the American public.
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Martin Luther KIng was assassinated in Memphis, Tennesse on the balcony of his hotel room. King was killed by James Earl Ray at the age of 39.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1968 or the Fair Housing Act made it against the law to discriminate when buying or selling a house.
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This event was an important expansion of the civil rights movement. African Americans alerted the nation of their plight and also the plight of the poor people living in America.
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Democratice party nominees were meeting in Chicago for the convention when 10,000 protestors came on the Chicago streets. The mayor of Chicago called in police to control the situation but it escalated into a riot and many were injured.
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Nixon's pledge to appeal to the American people was that he would end the war with peace and honor. Americans liked this idea and elected Nixon to be our nation's 46th president defeating Hubert Humphrey.
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President Nixon secretly tries to expand the Vietnam conflict by bombing their nieghboring counrty of Cambodia. His goal of this bombing was to disrupt their supply trail and gain better advantage at the negotiating table.
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Violence breaks out on the Kent State Campus when four students were killed. The police were called in when the angry protestors sent fire to the ROTC building located on campus.
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Jesse Jackson resigned from Operation Breadbasket in order to start his own organization called PUSH. This group is know for their work for poor and oppressed people around the world.
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The court ruled in this landmark court decision banned abortion in the United States. Many people were proud of this decision while others were anrgy fearing for the lives of the pregnant women.
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After Vietnam is when the unpopular draft was ended and the military was strictly volunteers. During Vietnam many men fled to Canada in order to avoid the draft and the war.
