Timeline by Rat

By cityrat

  • Dien Bien Phu

    Frech defeat here marks the end of French rein in Vietnam.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    The segreagation of schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

  • Geneva Accords

    This divides Vietnam along the 17th parallel, seperating North and South.

  • Crisis in Little Rock

    President Eisenhower sends troops to ensure integration.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    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.

  • SCLC

    Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Southern ministers create Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Congress passes the first series of Civil Rights Laws since Reconstruction.

  • Greensboro Sit-in

    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.

  • Freedom Riders

    James Farmer organizes the first Freedom Riders to desegregate interstate bus travel.

  • March on Washington

    Hundreds of thousands decend on Washington, DC to support Civil Rights legislation.

  • Civil Rights become law

    President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

    LBJ announces to nation that the North Vietnamese had fired torpedos on two American ships.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Congress passes a resolution allowing the Preident to use all necesary measures to protect American forces in Vietnam

  • US troops arrive

    3,500 Marines are the first US combat troops to land in Vietnam.

  • Voting Rights Act

    Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  • Tet Offensive

    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.

  • Nixon announces withdrawl

    Nixon announces the withdrawl of 25,000 troops.

  • Student killed

    Four students were shot and killed by National Guard troops at Kent State University while protesting the war.

  • US pulls out

    The US signs an agreement with the North to end all conflict

  • The fall of Saigon

    South Vietnam's Capitol falls under North Communist control, allowing the North to assume control of all of Vietnam.