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Dien Bien Phu
French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Segregation in public schools ruled unconstitutional. -
US military aid and advisers sent to South Vietnam
Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Rosa Parks
Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man. -
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Montgomery bys boycott in Alabama
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. -
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Martin Luther Kind Jr holds a meeting at his church. -
End of bus segregation
Supreme Court affirms segregation on buses to be unconstitutional. -
Formation of SCLC
King and other ministers form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. -
Little Rock Nine
The school board in Little Rock, Arkansas won a court oreder that required nine African American students to be admitted to Central High. -
Greensboro sit-in
Four students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina and ordered coffee at a whites only bar. When they were refused, more African-Americans came in to sit in -
March on Washington DC
March was organized by a group of civil rights leaders, which included between 200-300 thousand people and also included Martin Luther King Jr's speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Was a joint resolution which the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135 and the destroyer USS Maddox on August 2 and an alleged second naval engagement between North Vietnamese boats and the US destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy on August 4 in the Tonkin Gulf. -
Arrival
US troops arrive in Vietnam. -
Voting Rights act passes
Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. -
Tet Offesnive begins
purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow. -
Anti-War protests
Groups gather to protest vietnam war in Chicago -
Departure
Last troops leave Vietnam. -
Saigon America Embassy Falls
The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. Marked the end of the Vietnam War. -
Fall of Saigon
The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. Marked the end of the Vietnam War. -
Civil Rights Act of 1991
Limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination