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