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Civil Rights Era and Vietnam War
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle ended if French defeat and eventual French withdrawl from the region, givimg the Vietnamese full independence. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
United States Supreme Court rules that segragated public schools were unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth amendment. -
Rosa Parks
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. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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. -
Desegregation of buses
Supreme court affirms that Alabama's segregated buses are unconstitutional. -
Southern Christian Leadersip Conference
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers created SCLC to support the Civil Rights movement. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students are admitted into Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas against governer Orval Faubus' power. -
Sit-in
Four African American students sit at the White counter at Woolworth's waitng to be served the same as a White person. -
Kennedy takes office
Once he is elected,Kennedy continued the United States' support of South Vietnam. -
Operation Chopper
Operation where US helicopters flew 1000 South Vietnamese to take out NLF strongholds near Saigon, operation marks first US combat against the Vietcong. -
James Meredith
James Meredith applies at the University of Mississippi but is denied forcing President Kennedy to send troops in to let Meredith attend. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The act focused on segragation and job discrimination, it did little to advance African American voting rights. -
Gulf of Tomkin
North Vietnamese boats topedeoed two US destroyers, President Johnson then gave the order to attack all North Vietnamese naval instalations and ships. -
National Teach-In
122 colleges held teach-ins by radio to protest the war in Vietnam. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which outlawed discriminatory voting practices. -
Operation Crimp
Largest US operation of the war, 8000 troops sent to find Vietcong's Saigon area base of operations. -
Vietcong cross DMZ
Two North Vietnamese divisions attack several US bases along the DMZ. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. King assasinated on motel balcony by lone sniper. -
Vietcong Offensive
Earlt 1969 the Vietcong lauch a major offensive which is successfully repeled by US airpower and artillery. -
Cambodia Campaign
30,000 US troops spearhead attacks into Cambodia along with South Vietnamese troops, they succeed in destroying many key Vietcong supply depots. -
US withdrawl
By 1972 only 133,000 US troops remain in Vietnam which two thirds smaller than the US presence two years prior. -
Operation Linebacker
Operation Linebacker destroys supply depots near Hanoi and kills an estinamted 1600 Vietcog killed. -
Saigon American Embassy falls
The capitol of South Vietnam, Saigon, falls to the People's Army of Vietnam.