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Dien Bien Phu
defeat of french forces in vietnam -
Brown VS Board of Education
Declared Segregation in Schools Unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks is Arrested
She refused to giver up her seat to a white man -
Sprate but equal doctrine declared unconstitutional
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Martin Luther King JR. helps create SCLC
sothern Christian leadership Confrence was a group devoted to ending segregation -
Arkansas Governer Faubus blocks desegregation of Little Rock High school
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2 US advisors are killed in south vietnam
Two U.S. military advisors, Maj. Dale Buis and Sgt. Chester Ovnand, are killed by Viet Minh guerrillas at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. They are the first American deaths in the Second Indochina War which Americans will come to know simply as The Vietnam War. -
Kenedy denys us troops are fighting in vietnam
During a press conference, President Kennedy is asked if any Americans in Vietnam are engaged in the fighting. "No," the President responds without further comment. -
James Meredith tries to register at the university of mississippi
This caused riots to break out and forced Kenedy to send troops -
King issues his "letter from bermingham Jail"
King wrote this while in prison as an oppen leter to all who cared about the civil rights isue -
Martin Luter King leads protest in Bermingham alabama
Poliece assalt protesters with hooses and clubs and King is jailed -
King delivers his "I have a dream" speach
This was at the march on wasington in support of the civil rights act -
Civil Rights Act
Jonson signs it into law -
2 US destroyers open fire
The Maddox, joined by a second destroyer U.S.S. C. Turner Joy begin a series of vigorous zigzags in the Gulf of Tonkin sailing to within eight miles of North Vietnam's coast, while at the same time, South Vietnamese commandos in speed boats harass North Vietnamese defenses along the coastline. By nightfall, thunderstorms roll in, affecting the accuracy of electronic instruments on the destroyers. Crew members reading their instruments believe they have come under torpedo attack from North Vietna -
Jonson Reelected
With 61 percent of the popular vote, Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson is re-elected as President of the United States in a land-slide victory, the biggest to date in U.S. history, defeating Republican Barry Goldwater by 16 million votes. The Democrats also achieve big majorities in both the U.S. House and Senate. -
Viet cong bomb Brinks hotel
Viet Cong terrorists set off a car bomb explosion at the Brinks Hotel, an American officers' residence in downtown Saigon. The bomb is timed to detonate at 5:45 p.m., during 'happy hour' in the bar. Two Americans are killed and 58 wounded. President Johnson dismisses all recommendations for a retaliatory air strike against North Vietnam. -
Students at harvard protest
300 anti-war students at Harvard University seize the administration building, throw out eight deans, then lock themselves in. They are later forcibly ejected. -
Nixon sends secret leter
President Nixon, through a French emissary, sends a secret letter to Ho Chi Minh urging him to settle the war, while at the same time threatening to resume bombing if peace talks remain stalled as of November 1. In August, Hanoi responds by repeating earlier demands for Viet Cong participation in a coalition government in South Vietnam -
The U.S. Senate repeals the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
The U.S. Senate repeals the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. -
US involvment in vietnam ends