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Johnson elected to Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States and he took part in a lot of programs such as Medicare, Head Star, Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
James Farmer and others created CORE and organized non violent protest. It was founded on the University of Chicago campus as an outgrowth of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. It also introduced a small group of civil rights activists to the idea of achieving change through nonviolence. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. It was oe of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that "separate-but-equal" education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. -
Eisenhower took office
Dwight D. Eisenhower started his presidency. During his presidency he managed Cold War era tensions with the Soviet Union, ended the war in Korea and authorised a number of convert anti-communist operations by the CIA around the world. -
SEATO was created
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was signed by France, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Thailand and the United States. The goal of this alliance was to contain any communist aggression in the free territories of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia or Southeast Asia. -
French surrendered
After a long time in the War of Vietnam, France surrendered -
The Southern Manifesto
100 southern members of Congress endorsed it against the Brown ruing -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act.It included a number of important provisions for the protection of voting rights. It established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, and empowered federal officials to prosecute individuals that conspired to deny or abridge another citizen's right to vote. It also created a six-member US Civil Rights Commission charged with investigating allegations of voter infringement. -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v, Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Since into the school. -
NASA created
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency created for the American government and it's responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. -
James Cawson speech
175 students from 30 different states met at Raleigh, North Carolina and James Cawson gave a speech -
SDS formed
The Students for a Democratic Society was a national student activist organization in the US that was one of he main representations of the New Left. It had an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. -
US enters the Vietnam War
The communists in the Vietnam War started to target US military personnel and bases, beginning with a mortar attack on the US air base at Bien Hoa near Saigon in November. Then, they created the National Liberation Front (NLF) with North Vietnamese backing as the political wing of the antigovernment insurgency in South Vietnam. After that, President John F. Kennedy sent helicopters and Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorises secret operations agains the Viet Cong. -
Lunch conflict at Woolworth with African American students
Fours African American students sit in at the Woolworth's lunch counter after not being served. -
Freedom Ride
CORE staged a "freedom ride". Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American ivil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminal. They tried to use "withes-only" restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations. These groups were confronted by arresting police officers, as well as horrific violence from white protestors, along with routes but also drew international attention to their case. -
The Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahía de Cochinos on the southwestern coast by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. That invasion was financed by the US government. -
Soviets building Nuclear missiles
US intelligence found that Soviets were building Nuclear missile sites in Cuba -
John Glenn 1st American to orbit the Earth
The NASA, in February 20, 1962, sent a man to orbit the Earth. This man was John Glenn and he became a national hero and a symbol of American ambition. This mission was made by "Mercury Seven", the first group of astronauts. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit Earth. In almost 5 hours, John circled the globe three times reaching really high speeds. -
Megdar Evers assassination
Megdar Evers was assassinated in the driveway outside his home in Jackson. He was an African American civil rights leader and was shot to death by while supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
US, Great Britain and Soviet Union signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. This treaty prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. The treaty, which President John F. Kennedy signed less than three months before his assassination, was hailed as an important first step toward the control of nuclear weapons. -
Baptist Church bombing
Sixteenth street Baptist Church was bombed killing four African American girls -
John F Kennedy's Assassination
John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. His wife was beside him. Kennedy was waving at the large crowd gathered along the parade route and as the vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30, Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor, killing President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was officially dead 3o mins later at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. It survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson. Later, the Congress expanded the act and passed additional civil rights legislation. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorised President Lyndon Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US and to prevent further aggression. Congress after an alleged attack on two US naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam, The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched America's full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War. -
24th Amendment
The House passed the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as voting requirement in federal elections. Five states maintained poll taxes which disproportionately affected African-American voters. It aimed to disenfranchise black voters and institute segregation. Some critics the legislation thought the amendment did not go far enough to protect black voting rights in state and local elections. -
War on Poverty
The War on Poverty was an expensive social-welfare legislation that was introduced by Lyndon B. Johnson and intended to help end poverty in the United States. It was part of a larger legislative reform program, known as the Great Society, that Johnson hoped would make the United States a more equitable and just country. -
Job Corps and Head Start
The Economic Opportunity Act created the Job Corps and Head Start -
Beatlemania
Beatlemania was the intense fan frenzy directed towards the English rock band the Beatles. I February 1964, the Beatles arrived in the US and had televised performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. That established their international stature and changed attitudes to popular music in the US. The use of the word "mania" to describe a poplar phenomenon predates the Beatles by more than 100 years. It has continued to be used to describe the popularity of musical acts. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
President Johnson started Operation Rolling Thunder that was a sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the US -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to US Constitution. The Voting Rights Act is considered one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in US history. -
Medicare and Medicaid
Johnson created Medicare and Medicaid which are both government programs that help pay for health care even though the benefits, costs and eligibility requirements are different. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides federal funding to primary and secondary education, with funds authorized for professional development, instructional materials, resources to support educational programs and parental involvement promotion. -
Water Quality Act
The Water Quality Act represents an initiative by the federal government of the US to protect and ensure the quality of surface and ground waters. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
The Immigration and Nationality Act collected many provisions and recognised the structure of immigration law. -
Malcolm X Assassination
Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, was assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity in Washington Heights. -
Bloody Sunday
On March 7, 1965 around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights. -
Black Power and Black Panther
The Black Panthers were part of the larger Black Power movement, which emphasised black pride, community control and unification for civil right. -
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was created to empower the federal government to set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic safety. -
Clean Water Restoration Act
The Clean Water Restoration Act was signed to establish and enforce water quality standards for all interstate waters that.flowed through their boundaries. -
Hawks and Doves
The Congress divides into two camps: hawks and doves. -
Detroit Riots
The worst violence occurred in New Jersey, Michigan and C.A. They were among the most violent and destructive riots in US history. By the time the bloodshed, burning and looting ended after five days, 43 people were dead, 342 injured, nearly 1,400 buildings had been burned and some 7,000 National Guard and US Army troops had been called into service. -
First African American Supreme Court Justice
President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. -
Air Quality Act
The Air Quality Act was a federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. -
Robert Kennedy was killed
Senator Rober Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day later. -
Tet offensive
The Set Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
Nixon as President
Eight years after being defeated by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election, Richard Nixon defeats Hubert H. Humphrey and is elected president. -
Democratic Convantion erupts in Violence
After all the presidents were killed, they could not agree who to run as president and that started violent conflicts between Americans. -
Martin Luther King, Jr Assassination
His assassination is an event that shocked the world. King had led the civil rights movement for more than a decade with impassioned speeches and nonviolent protests to fight segregation ad achieve significant civil-rights advances for African Americans. His assassination let to an outpouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of nation mourning that helped speed the was for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era -
America wins the space race
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Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. -
Cambodian Campaign
The Cambodian Invasion was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia by the US and South Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. -
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA is an agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health. -
Kent State and Jackson State killings
They were shooting in both Kent State and Jackson State where students were actively protesting for what they believed was right and never expected to be shot or shot at for it. -
26th Amendment
The 26th Amendment established that the voting age was 18 years instead of 21, as it had been until that moment. -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. -
Publication of Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers were top-secret Department of Defense study of US political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg came to oppose the war and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon papers should be available to the American public. He photocopied the report and in March 1971 gave the copy to The New York Times, which then published a series of scathing articles based on the report's most damning secrets. -
Paris Peace Accords
US, Vietcong, North Vietnam and South Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accords. It was an agreement for ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. Due to South Vietnam's unwillingness to recognise the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, all references to it were confined to a two-part version of the document signed by North Vietnam and the United States. The South Vietnamese were presented with a separate document that did not make reference to the Viet Congress government. -
War Powers Act
The Waar Powers Act is a congressional resolution designed to limit the US president's ability to initiate or escalate military action abroad. Among other restrictions, the law requires that presidents notify Congress after deploying the armed forces and limits how long units can reman engaged without congressional approval. Enacted in 1973 with the goal of avoiding another lengthy conflict such as the Vietnam War. Also, some presidents have been accused of failing to comply with its regulations -
Vietnam is communist
The communist North Vietnamese captured Saigon accepting the surrender of South Vietnam. That was the end of the Vietnam War and Vietnam was officially communist.
