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US signs agreement to end war
For the major world powers the war was a proxy conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, one of many that would mark the Cold War. -
French Defeated at 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-nationalist revolutionaries. -
brown vs BOE
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
emmit till
was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman -
rosa parks arrested
Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
boycott
a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
SCLC
is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
freedom riders
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 -
james meredith
is an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. In 1962, he was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi -
i have a dream speech
s a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. -
CRA 1964
is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
s the name given to two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron -
Operation Rolling Thunder
as the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
voting rights act 1965
is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting -
Pentagon Papers released
June 2011, the entire set of the Pentagon Papers were declassified and publicly released. Contents[edit] Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara created the Vietnam Study Task Force on June 17, 1967, for the purpose of writing an "encyclopedic history of the Vietnam War". -
Tet Offensive
was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies -
Massacre at My Lai
was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. -
LBJ announces that he will not seek re-election
President Lyndon B. Johnson's Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection -
MLK assassinated.
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on Thursday April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. -
Woodstock
was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. -
jackie robinson
was an American baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era -
North Vietnam invades Saigon
On April 30, 1975, a North Vietnamese tank broke through the walls of the South’s presidential palace. The troops cornered South Vietnam’s last president Duong Van Minh and when he told his captives that he wanted to surrender, they informed him that he no longer had anything left to surrender. -
Geneva Accords
was a peace plan negotiated by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Cyrus Vance, aided by United States diplomat Herbert Okun in November 1991.
