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Battle which would cut suply lines to French. Taken by the Vietminh.
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Segregation unconstitutional in public schools. Ruling was unanimous.
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Boarded bus, and asked to move to rear but refused, was arrested sparking new uprisings in civil rights.
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Martin Luther King Jr. started the boycott of the bus system because of their participation in segration.
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Divided Vietnam along the 17th Parallel. The west in control of the south, and the north controlled by Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh.
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Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus defies federal government and places National Gaurd troops around school, restricting African Americans from entering.
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Protect the right of African Americans to vote.
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Starting with 4 students, sit-ins exploded in use as a method of desegregation of restaurants and other public places.
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Continued support of South Vietnam. Had to appear tough on communism to prove Democrats ability to deal with the issue.
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Promoted Civil Rights Act, and named 40 African Americans to high level positions in the government.
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In an attempt to desegragate the buses in the south, man African Americans rode south on interstate buses, protesting the segragation of the buses.
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MLK took protest to Birmingham, in order to up the stakes, and requiring the government to take a stand on the issue of segragation.
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Declared segragation forever and always in the south.
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Weakened South Vietnams Government. Forced US to become even more involved.
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Gave federal government power to prevent racial disrimination and made segregation illegal in most public places.
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March on Selma, Alabama with the focal point being the right to vote.
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Making large gains in Vietnam, while media covered much less optimistic accounts of the war, less and less people believed we were doing as well as we claimed.
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Suprise attack on military bases in Vietnam, during the Vietnamese New Year Tet.
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Plan which involved US withdrawl of troops with the South Vietnamese assuming more of the fighting.
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Leaked information about views of government officials in the White House, who publicly criticized the war, but were secretly against it.
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Allowed people 18 years of age right to vote, which is where a lot of the opposition to the war was.
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Signed aggreement "ending the war and restoring the peace in Vietnam."
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North Vietnam launched a full scale attack on the South. Without US support the south fell to communism.