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Battle ended if French defeat and eventual French withdrawl from the region, givimg the Vietnamese full independence.
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United States Supreme Court rules that segragated public schools were unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth amendment.
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Rosa Parks leaves her seamstress job in Montgomery, Alabama and boards a bus to go home, there she is told to move to back due to her color, she rufuses.
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Movement started with the election of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where he preached a message of nonviolent passive resistance.
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Supreme court affirms that Alabama's segregated buses are unconstitutional.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers created SCLC to support the Civil Rights movement.
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Nine African American students are admitted into Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas against governer Orval Faubus' power.
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Four African American students sit at the White counter at Woolworth's waitng to be served the same as a White person.
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Once he is elected,Kennedy continued the United States' support of South Vietnam.
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Operation where US helicopters flew 1000 South Vietnamese to take out NLF strongholds near Saigon, operation marks first US combat against the Vietcong.
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James Meredith applies at the University of Mississippi but is denied forcing President Kennedy to send troops in to let Meredith attend.
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The act focused on segragation and job discrimination, it did little to advance African American voting rights.
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North Vietnamese boats topedeoed two US destroyers, President Johnson then gave the order to attack all North Vietnamese naval instalations and ships.
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122 colleges held teach-ins by radio to protest the war in Vietnam.
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
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Largest US operation of the war, 8000 troops sent to find Vietcong's Saigon area base of operations.
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Two North Vietnamese divisions attack several US bases along the DMZ.
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Dr. King assasinated on motel balcony by lone sniper.
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Earlt 1969 the Vietcong lauch a major offensive which is successfully repeled by US airpower and artillery.
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30,000 US troops spearhead attacks into Cambodia along with South Vietnamese troops, they succeed in destroying many key Vietcong supply depots.
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By 1972 only 133,000 US troops remain in Vietnam which two thirds smaller than the US presence two years prior.
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Operation Linebacker destroys supply depots near Hanoi and kills an estinamted 1600 Vietcog killed.
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The capitol of South Vietnam, Saigon, falls to the People's Army of Vietnam.