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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries.
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A decisive turning point in the history of Europe. Germany is once again considered a power country of Europe.
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Rosa Parks stood up to white authority and the racist thinking of the time by refusing to be treated different from white people. She chose not to move to the back of the bus and by doing so marked her place in history.
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Segregation of public schools was deemed unconstitutional and in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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One of the most important events in African-American Civil Rights. Began the integration of schools in America.
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Four college freshman began a series of sit-in at a Wolworth's grocery store that refused to serve blacks. Their actions eventually lead to a change in the store policy.
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American spy plane shot down over Soviet Russia. Tension between the countries is heightened and a stronger anti-communist approach is taken by the U.S.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his historic, "I Have a Dream" speech. The march is credited for helping to pass the Civil Rights Act.
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The act outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation.
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rResponse to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron and the destroyer USS Maddox.
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3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam.
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The act outlawed discriminatory voting practices responsible for the disenfranchisement of African Americans.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a major leader and organix=zer of the Civil Rights movement. His death, athough a significant loss to the African-American cause, was a rallying cry for the movement.
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The 1968 act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, and national origin.
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Regular and irregular forces of the People's Army of Vietnam fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies.
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The invasion of Cambodia was a U.S. campaign for the U.S. military to defeat anestimated 40,000 Vietnamese trops in Cambodia.
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In the aftermath of the American Invasion of Cambodia on April 30, 1970, four students were killed at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 in Ohio, as well as two students at Jackson State College in Mississippi.
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The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam under communist rule.