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Dien Bien Phu
Defeat of French Forces in Vietnam -
Brown v. Board of Education
Court declares segregated scools unconstiutional. -
Rosa Parks is arrested
Rosa Parks is arrested and Montgomery Bus Boycott begins. She refused to give up her seat to a white man in the front of the bus. -
separate-but-equal doctrine
Supreme court declared separate-but-equal doctrine in no longer constitutional. derived from the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -
Martin Luther King JR helps create SCLC
Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Southern Ministers creat SCLC -
NAACP vs Alabama
In NAACP v. Alabama, the Supreme Court rules that the NAACP was not required to release membership lists to continue operating in the state. -
The Sit-in Movement in Virgina
Several Black women sat in a white bar while refusing to leave. White students poured ketup, mustard and other drinks on the the black women that refused to leave. The students were eventually hit and were dragged out of the bar. -
Freedom Riders.
Organized by James Farmer, Freedom Riders was created to desegregate interstate bus travel -
CIvil Rights Act
President Johnson passed the act. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public -
King's "I have A Dream" speech
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have A D-ream" speech during the the March on Washington in Support of new civil rights act -
Civil Rights Act approved
Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law -
Voting Rights Act
Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965. the Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color." -
US begins bombing by air
US begins bombing around Haiphong and Hanoi, N. Vietnam. This sort of bombing is considered a major escalation of air war -
Congressman's O'Neill's view of the continuation of the Vietnam War
Congressman Thomas P O'Neillsoke publicly with President Johnson. He opposed the continuation of the Vietnam war. O'Neill supported Senator Eugene McCarthyfor president in 1968 instead of Johnson -
Tet Offensive
Communists start Tet Offensive which escalates into one of the major battles of the war. Some of the battles include the attacks on almost all of the capitals of S. Vietnam's 44 provinces -
Johnson's non-military solution
President Johnson commits the US to a non-military solution of the war when he announced he would not seek re-election. Johnson ordered a bombing halt over 3/4ths of N. Vietnam (n.of the 20th Parallel) -
withdrawl of troops
President Nixon announced the reduction of another 50,000 troops by mid-April 1970 -
10 days of antiwar protests
10 days of protests by a group calling themselves the "Mayday Tribe" THe gorup of protesters went to some federal offices in Washington, DC -
Nixon's 7th withdrawl
President Nixon announces the 7th withdrawal: 70,000 troops by the first of May. After this withdrawl of troops, the troops level would be at 69,000 in Vietnam -
Nixon announced an agreement "to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and S.E. Asia."
Official end of the Vietnam War. Between 27 Jan and 29 Mar 73, a total of 587 military and civilian prisoners were released by the North Vietnamese, and during that same period, 23,500 US troops were withdrawn from South Vietnam -
President Nixon resigns
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US involvement in Vietnam ends
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Withdrawl of 20,000 troops
President Nixon announced the withdrawal of 20,000 more troops