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DiemBienPhu
Day of French defeat, Vietnam earns independance -
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Montgomery bus boycott
In Alabama the blacks begin to boycott the public transportation system in protest of the segregation of public places -
Rosa Parks
Rose Parksb refused to get up for a white man on the bus and was arrested -
Refused Elections
Ngo Dinh Deim refused to permit the election, fearing Ho Chi Minh would win -
SCLC
Martin Luther King Jr. and other southern ministers found the SCLC -
Little Rock
Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock to ensure integration of a highschool in Alabama -
Greensboro sit-in
This is the beginning of sit-ins, where African Americans go and sit in the white only parts of stores and restaurants peacefully, only demanding service -
Green Beret
UN special forces (green beret) land in Vietnam -
James Meredith
James Meredith, a black, tries to register at the University of Mississippi; riots force Kennedy to send in troops -
MLK in Birmingham
Martin Luther King Jr. leads protests in Birmingham Alabama; police assault the potestors and King is jailed -
Diem bans traditional Buddhist flags
Diem, a Catholic, bans the flags for Buddha's birthday, which is the most widely practised religion in Vietnam, making him very very unpopular -
"I Have A Dream."
Martin luther dileavers his I Have A Dream speech -
Overthrow of Diem
Diem was so unpopular that the generals overthrew and shortly afterwords executed Diem, with the American ambassador's sympathy towards the generals -
Civ. Rights Act
Civil rights act -
Gulf of Tonkin
North Veitnamese torpedo boats fired on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Senate and House authorize the president to take all neccessary actions to prevent armed attacks and further aggression -
Send in the Troops
After an attack at Pleiku against American soldiers, Johnson responds by bombing North Veitnam -
Selma, Alabama
King leads a march into Selma, Alabama,to build support for new voting rights law, police brutally attack the marchers -
Cambodia
President Nixon extends the Veitnam war into Cambodia -
Laos
American troops invade Laos -
Christmas Bombings
The Christmas bombings were the huge final bombing effort against north vietnam forces called "Linebacker II" by Nixon -
US Embassy Overrun
US Embassy is overrun in Cygon