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Pentagon papers released
is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam -
Jackie Robinson enters the MLB
Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base -
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French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu
A few escaped to Laos. The French government resigned and the new Prime Minister, the left of centre Pierre Mendès France, supported French withdrawal from Indochina. -
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Geneva Accords
a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues on the Korean peninsula and to unify Vietnam and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina -
Brown vs BOE
declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Emmit Till killed
14 year old boy who was beat to death after "firting" with a white women. -
Rosa Parks arrested
Parks refused to obey the bus driver, and didnt move for a white man -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
SCLC Founded
an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr -
"I have a dream speech"
A public speech given by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. It delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. The first Freedom Ride left Washington DC on May 4, 1961 -
James Meridith Enters Ol' Miss University
He won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all white university of Mississippi, his goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[4] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
the name given to two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin -
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Operation Rolling Thunder
the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force, aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting -
Tet Offensive
one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, -
Massacre at my Lai
the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam, It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd -
LBJ announces that he will not seek re-election
Johnson's decision was in large part a consequence of declining public support for his policies in the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive, a massive assault in late January 1968 by North Vietnamese forces on South Vietnam, contradicted the Johnson administration's assertions of progress in Vietnam and further undermined Johnson's credibility -
Woodstock
3 day festival of peace and music -
US signs agreement to end war
a settlement which ended direct military involvement by the United States and resulted in a temporary ceasefire, the end of the Vietnam War occurring two years later -
North Vietnam invades Saigon
The troops cornered South Vietnam’s last president Duong Van Minh and when he told his captives that he wanted to surrender, they informed him that he no longer had anything left to surrender
