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Frech defeat here marks the end of French rein in Vietnam.
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The segreagation of schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
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This divides Vietnam along the 17th parallel, seperating North and South.
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President Eisenhower sends troops to ensure integration.
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Rosa Parks decides that she will not sit on the back of the bus because of her skin color. This sparks a boycott of the buses in Montgomery.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Southern ministers create Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Congress passes the first series of Civil Rights Laws since Reconstruction.
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A group of African-American Church-goers decide to go and sit-in at a restaraunt they were not allowed to sit-in at. After days of repeating this, laws were eventually passed to outlaw the refusal of service based on skin color.
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James Farmer organizes the first Freedom Riders to desegregate interstate bus travel.
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Hundreds of thousands decend on Washington, DC to support Civil Rights legislation.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
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LBJ announces to nation that the North Vietnamese had fired torpedos on two American ships.
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Congress passes a resolution allowing the Preident to use all necesary measures to protect American forces in Vietnam
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3,500 Marines are the first US combat troops to land in Vietnam.
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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The North Vietnamese launch a massive offensive into the South. At first they inflict a lot of damage on US and South Vietnamese forces, but after a month of fighting they are repelled. Their offensive is a total failure.
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Nixon announces the withdrawl of 25,000 troops.
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Four students were shot and killed by National Guard troops at Kent State University while protesting the war.
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The US signs an agreement with the North to end all conflict
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South Vietnam's Capitol falls under North Communist control, allowing the North to assume control of all of Vietnam.