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Lunch Counter Sit Ins
Challenege segregation in eating places -
Womens Movement
right to vote and equality in education and jobs -
1960 election
JFK nearly wins but has no mandate -
Alliance for Progress
Cooperative effort to meet base needs of latin american people -
Agent Orange
Bombs dropped on jungle landscapes to kill leaves and thick undergrowth and expose viet cong hiding places and kill crops. -
Peace Corps
Sent volunteers abroad to he;p developing nations -
Berlin Crisis
Kruschev demanded treaty making divisions permanent. -
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Gain bargaining and economic power of their employers -
The Birmingham Confrontation
Promote civil rights for african americans in birmingham -
Murder of Medgar Evers
Civil rights leader and active in movement assasinated -
The March on Washington
Get support for civil rights bill -
16th street church bombing
Bomb placed in church killed 4 people and injured 15. Turning point in civil rights movement -
U.S. involvement in vietnam increases
Kennedy is assasinated -
John F. Kennedy is assassinated
JFK is killed -
Freedom Summer
Attempt to regsiter as many african americans voters as possible in mississippi -
Gulf of tonkin resolution
Gives johnson authority to escalate war in vietnam -
1964 Democratic National Convention
60000 balacks registered to vote -
Johnsons Escalation
Sends more money and troops into war -
Viet Cong expand in South Vietnam
North vietnamese tropps poured into south via Ho Chi Minh trail. -
Selma March
march to get voting rights bill passed -
Voting rights act of 1965
Johnson approves of voting rights to african americans -
Ntional organization for women (NOW)
Women were frustrated with existing womens groups who were willing to pressure equal employment oppurtunity -
b-52 Saturation Bombing
used to smash roads and heavy bridges in North Vietnam -
American Indian Movement
fought for Indian treaty rights and better conditions and oppurtunities -
Tet Offensive Begins
Military compaigns of vietnam war. Viet cong and North vietnam against south vietnam and U.S. -
My Lai Massacre
Innocent kids parents and grandparents were slaughtered by U.S. troops -
Election Year
LBJ announces hes not running again -
Assasination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated -
Bobby kennedy assassination
Bobby Kennedy is assassinated -
Alcatraz Protestors
75 native american protestors landed on alcatraz and claimed the 13 acre rock -
Woodstock
Huge Rock and Roll concert, a bunch of songs about vietnam and protesting the war and their opinion on the government.
