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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks would not let a white person take her spot, when she was told she had to. -
Crisis in Little Rock
The School board in Little Rock, Arkansas, won a court order requireing that nine african American students be admitted to Central high. -
sit-in
Four Friends decided to go and have a sit-in at a lunch counter that only catered to white people. -
Freedom Riders
African Americans boarded buses that refused to integrate -
james Meredith
he applied fot a transfer to the university of Mississippi. Which wouldn't let him until the U.S. government sent troops in. -
Birmingham, Alabama
Dr. King leads protests, and the police assault the protesters and King goes to jail -
I have a dream
Dr. King marches on Washington in support of the new civil rights act -
Ovwer throw of Diem
millitary coup launches attack and overthrows Diem -
Two American destroyers
North Vietnamese torpedo boats had fired on two American Destroyers -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
senate and house passed thus authorizing the president to take all necessary action to repel any army that attacks American forces. -
Civil Rights act of 1964
Johnson signs Civil Rights act into law -
nobel Peace Prize
Dr. King recieved the Nobel Peace Prize for his work -
Rolling Thunder
Started Bombing campaign against North Vietnamese -
Selma, Alabama
Kings leads a march to build support for a new voting rights law -
troops
sent troops to help South Vietnam -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passes this law -
tet offensive
the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese launched a huge suprise attack, but ended up failing -
Cambodia
American troops had invaded cambodia -
Agreement
The waring sides signed an agreement, which ended the war. -
U.S. troops
last U.S. Troops leave -
South Vietnam Falls
North Vietnam invades South Vietnam. with know one to stop them. They took over -
embassy overrun
the U.S. Embassy is overrun