Ch. 25-26 By cmagee May 7, 1954 Dien Bien Phu May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling is issued Nov 1, 1955 U.S. military aid and advisers are sent to South Vietnam Dec 1, 1955 Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks arrested Sep 20, 1962 James Meredith James Meredith tries to register at the University of Mississippi; riots break out in Kentucky May 27, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr., leads protest in Birmingham, Alabama Aug 28, 1963 March on D.C. is held to support the Civil Rights bill Jul 2, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed Aug 7, 1964 Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Feb 21, 1965 Malcom X assasinated Mar 8, 1965 U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam Aug 6, 1965 Voting Rights Act passes Jan 30, 1968 Tet Offensive begins Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., is assasinated Apr 11, 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1968 passed Oct 11, 1968 Anti-war protest on Chicago May 4, 1970 National Guard troops kill student protesters at Kent State Mar 29, 1973 Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam Apr 30, 1975 Saigon falls to North Vietnam invasion