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This ruled that segregation in publicm schools was unconstitutional because it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
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Rosa Parks refuses to leave her seat for a white man, she is arrested for this. Starts a bus buycott.
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A protest where african americans would sit in and not leave a restaruant where they were denied service. This helped to integrate many restaraunts
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The governer of Alabama, he was very pro-segragation and did his best to kkep black students out of public schools. Kind of a dousche.
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Given by Dr. King at the Lincoln Memorial. He siad that he dreamed of a day when people would be judged by the quality of their character, not the color of their skin.
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South Vietnam's President, Ngo Dinh Diem, was very unpopular due to the corruption of his government. Because of him being killed, the South's government got weaker.
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He was shot in Dallas, Texas by ex-marine Lee Harvey Oswald. This means that the President is now Johnson.
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Prsedient Johnson signs it in, it made segregation illegal in most public places. It also established the Equal Employment Oppurtunity Commission
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The incident was between the USS Maddox and three vietnamese torpedo boats. Although it has been questioned whether or not it ever happened.
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Is important because it gave President Johnson the ability to use conventional military force without a formal decleration of war.
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A march for voting rights between Selma and Montgomery. There were three marches, only the third one made it all the way to Montgomery.
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Basically made sure that all peoples could vote regardless of skin color. It outlawed requiring literacy tests. It was signed in by Johnson.
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Occured in the Los Angeles neighborhood (named Watts). During which 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,438 arrested.
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the NVA broke the truce that usaully came with the Tet (lunar new year policy. Over 100 cities were attacked.
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President Johnson decides not to run for the presidency because of the oppositon to the war and Vietnam.
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James Earl Ray shot Dr. KIng from his hotel room. James Ray was giveng a 99 year sentence.
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A process called "Vietnamation" where we gradually let the soldiers of South Vietnam take over.
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Men of age and physical capability were picked reandomly to fight in Vietnam. Nixon decided it was the best way to increase man power. Because of it, more aroung 3 million americans went to Vietnam.
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The students were protesting the invasion of Cambodia. The Ohio National Gaurd shot and killed 4 people, wounding 9 others.
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The war ended with the North beating the South, the two were reunited.
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It is overrun by the Khmer Rouge, a group of Communist Guerilla fighters. After the start the Cambodian Genocide.