After having fought in WWII and moved to the cities to work in factories, African Americans made more money and formed more contacts with one another at work, on the street, and in churches. These changes helped make the civil rights protests successful.
Civil Rights Organizations
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality
Rosa Parks - refused to give bus seat to white man
arrested
sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Supreme Court ruled separate was not equal.
Marches, sit-ins, strikes and protests were used to affect change.
1963 March on Washington, - Martin Luther King Jr. - famous "I have a dream" speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - law banned segregation in public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent job discrimination
Freedom Summer - 1964
Brought N college students into MI to register blacks to vote.
1965 - Voting Rights Act - banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote.
Malcolm X - leader of the Nation of Islam - urged African Americans to separate from whites.
Vietnam
Late 1800's until WWII France ruled Vietnam as a colony
1930- Ho Chi Minh (revolutionary leader) united 3 Communist groups - called for an independent Vietnam
organized protests against the French govt.
1940 - Japan took over Indochina (including Vietnam)
1945 - Japanese surrendered to the Allies.
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam's independence
France tries to regain control of Vietnam
1946 - war between Viet Minh (Vietnamese nationalists under Ho Chi Minh) and France
U.S. has a policy of containment (working to prevent the spread of communism)
1950 - U.S. gives $10 million in military aid to the French
Domino Theory - if a country fell to communism, nearby countries would also topple
1954 - Viet Minh overrun French forces.
Vietnam is divided on the 17th parallel (N and S)
N - controlled by Ho Chi Minh and the Communists
S - Diem and anti-communists
Diem failed to establish a democratic govt. His govt was corrupt.
Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists) in S oppose Diem.
N. Vietnam supports the Viet Cong by sending supplies and troops from N to S along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Late 1963 U.S. has more than 16,000 military personnel in Vietnam.
Communist Threats
Bay of Pigs - Cuban exiles trained by the U.S. invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. Troops are crushed in the invasion
Berlin Wall - 1961 Soviet Union threatened to close off Western access to W. Berlin because so many E. Germans were fleeing to escape communism - Soviets and E. Germans built the Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis - Oct. 1962 U.S. learned that the Soviets had put nuclear missiles in Cuba. - The Soviets eventually agreed to remove the missiles
1963 Diem is killed in a military coup
1964 President Johnson's military advisers make plans to bomb N. Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - gave the president the power to use military force in Vietnam
1965 - Johnson began bombing N. Vietnam
Sent combat ground troops to Vietnam
By 1968 there were more than 546,000 American military personnel in S. Vietnam
Troubles for soldiers in Vietnam
guerrilla warfare - surprise attacks by small bands of fighters
suffocating heat
constant rain
difficulty figuring out who the enemy was
U.S. drops bombs of napalm (jellied gasoline that burns violently)
planes sprayed Agent Orange - a chemical that kills plants
Tet Offensive
A surprise attack on U.S. military bases and more than 100 cities and towns in S. Vietnam
1968 - Johnson said he would stop bombing most of N. Vietnam and seek to bargain for peace.
My Lai massacre - 1969
A U.S. platoon rounded up and shot between 175 and 500 unarmed civilians, mostly women, children and old men
To Americans this represented a horrifying break down in morality and discipline in the armed forces.
Back home - Kent state University in Ohio - 4 students killed during an antiwar demonstration
doves - those who opposed the war
hawks - those who supported the war
Jan 1973 - U.S. agreed to withdraw all its troops
N. Vietnam agreed not to invade S. Vietnam
1975 N. Vietnam invades S. Vietnam.
Communist forces capture Saigon and rename it Ho Chi Minh City.
26th Amendment - lowered voting age from 21 to 18
War Powers Act - Limits the president's war-making powers
After having fought in WWII and moved to the cities to work in factories, African Americans made more money and formed more contacts with one another at work, on the street, and in churches. These changes helped make the civil rights protests successful.
Civil Rights Organizations
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality
Rosa Parks - refused to give bus seat to white man
arrested
sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Supreme Court ruled separate was not equal.
Marches, sit-ins, strikes and protests were used to affect change.
1963 March on Washington, - Martin Luther King Jr. - famous "I have a dream" speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - law banned segregation in public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent job discrimination
Freedom Summer - 1964
Brought N college students into MI to register blacks to vote.
1965 - Voting Rights Act - banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote.
Malcolm X - leader of the Nation of Islam - urged African Americans to separate from whites.
Vietnam
Late 1800's until WWII France ruled Vietnam as a colony
1930- Ho Chi Minh (revolutionary leader) united 3 Communist groups - called for an independent Vietnam
organized protests against the French govt.
1940 - Japan took over Indochina (including Vietnam)
1945 - Japanese surrendered to the Allies.
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam's independence
France tries to regain control of Vietnam
1946 - war between Viet Minh (Vietnamese nationalists under Ho Chi Minh) and France
U.S. has a policy of containment (working to prevent the spread of communism)
1950 - U.S. gives $10 million in military aid to the French
Domino Theory - if a country fell to communism, nearby countries would also topple
1954 - Viet Minh overrun French forces.
Vietnam is divided on the 17th parallel (N and S)
N - controlled by Ho Chi Minh and the Communists
S - Diem and anti-communists
Diem failed to establish a democratic govt. His govt was corrupt.
Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists) in S oppose Diem.
N. Vietnam supports the Viet Cong by sending supplies and troops from N to S along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Late 1963 U.S. has more than 16,000 military personnel in Vietnam.
Communist Threats
Bay of Pigs - Cuban exiles trained by the U.S. invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. Troops are crushed in the invasion
Berlin Wall - 1961 Soviet Union threatened to close off Western access to W. Berlin because so many E. Germans were fleeing to escape communism - Soviets and E. Germans built the Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis - Oct. 1962 U.S. learned that the Soviets had put nuclear missiles in Cuba. - The Soviets eventually agreed to remove the missiles
1963 Diem is killed in a military coup
1964 President Johnson's military advisers make plans to bomb N. Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - gave the president the power to use military force in Vietnam
1965 - Johnson began bombing N. Vietnam
Sent combat ground troops to Vietnam
By 1968 there were more than 546,000 American military personnel in S. Vietnam
Troubles for soldiers in Vietnam
guerrilla warfare - surprise attacks by small bands of fighters
suffocating heat
constant rain
difficulty figuring out who the enemy was
U.S. drops bombs of napalm (jellied gasoline that burns violently)
planes sprayed Agent Orange - a chemical that kills plants
Tet Offensive
A surprise attack on U.S. military bases and more than 100 cities and towns in S. Vietnam
1968 - Johnson said he would stop bombing most of N. Vietnam and seek to bargain for peace.
My Lai massacre - 1969
A U.S. platoon rounded up and shot between 175 and 500 unarmed civilians, mostly women, children and old men
To Americans this represented a horrifying break down in morality and discipline in the armed forces.
Back home - Kent state University in Ohio - 4 students killed during an antiwar demonstration
doves - those who opposed the war
hawks - those who supported the war
Jan 1973 - U.S. agreed to withdraw all its troops
N. Vietnam agreed not to invade S. Vietnam
1975 N. Vietnam invades S. Vietnam.
Communist forces capture Saigon and rename it Ho Chi Minh City.
26th Amendment - lowered voting age from 21 to 18
War Powers Act - Limits the president's war-making powers
Civil Rights
After having fought in WWII and moved to the cities to work in factories, African Americans made more money and formed more contacts with one another at work, on the street, and in churches. These changes helped make the civil rights protests successful.
Civil Rights Organizations
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality
Rosa Parks - refused to give bus seat to white man
arrested
sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Supreme Court ruled separate was not equal.
Marches, sit-ins, strikes and protests were used to affect change.
1963 March on Washington, - Martin Luther King Jr. - famous "I have a dream" speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - law banned segregation in public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent job discrimination
Freedom Summer - 1964
Brought N college students into MI to register blacks to vote.
1965 - Voting Rights Act - banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote.
Malcolm X - leader of the Nation of Islam - urged African Americans to separate from whites.
Vietnam
Late 1800's until WWII France ruled Vietnam as a colony
1930- Ho Chi Minh (revolutionary leader) united 3 Communist groups - called for an independent Vietnam
organized protests against the French govt.
1940 - Japan took over Indochina (including Vietnam)
1945 - Japanese surrendered to the Allies.
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam's independence
France tries to regain control of Vietnam
1946 - war between Viet Minh (Vietnamese nationalists under Ho Chi Minh) and France
U.S. has a policy of containment (working to prevent the spread of communism)
1950 - U.S. gives $10 million in military aid to the French
Domino Theory - if a country fell to communism, nearby countries would also topple
1954 - Viet Minh overrun French forces.
Vietnam is divided on the 17th parallel (N and S)
N - controlled by Ho Chi Minh and the Communists
S - Diem and anti-communists
Diem failed to establish a democratic govt. His govt was corrupt.
Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists) in S oppose Diem.
N. Vietnam supports the Viet Cong by sending supplies and troops from N to S along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Late 1963 U.S. has more than 16,000 military personnel in Vietnam.
Communist Threats
Bay of Pigs - Cuban exiles trained by the U.S. invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. Troops are crushed in the invasion
Berlin Wall - 1961 Soviet Union threatened to close off Western access to W. Berlin because so many E. Germans were fleeing to escape communism - Soviets and E. Germans built the Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis - Oct. 1962 U.S. learned that the Soviets had put nuclear missiles in Cuba. - The Soviets eventually agreed to remove the missiles
1963 Diem is killed in a military coup
1964 President Johnson's military advisers make plans to bomb N. Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - gave the president the power to use military force in Vietnam
1965 - Johnson began bombing N. Vietnam
Sent combat ground troops to Vietnam
By 1968 there were more than 546,000 American military personnel in S. Vietnam
Troubles for soldiers in Vietnam
guerrilla warfare - surprise attacks by small bands of fighters
suffocating heat
constant rain
difficulty figuring out who the enemy was
U.S. drops bombs of napalm (jellied gasoline that burns violently)
planes sprayed Agent Orange - a chemical that kills plants
Tet Offensive
A surprise attack on U.S. military bases and more than 100 cities and towns in S. Vietnam
1968 - Johnson said he would stop bombing most of N. Vietnam and seek to bargain for peace.
My Lai massacre - 1969
A U.S. platoon rounded up and shot between 175 and 500 unarmed civilians, mostly women, children and old men
To Americans this represented a horrifying break down in morality and discipline in the armed forces.
Back home - Kent state University in Ohio - 4 students killed during an antiwar demonstration
doves - those who opposed the war
hawks - those who supported the war
Jan 1973 - U.S. agreed to withdraw all its troops
N. Vietnam agreed not to invade S. Vietnam
1975 N. Vietnam invades S. Vietnam.
Communist forces capture Saigon and rename it Ho Chi Minh City.
26th Amendment - lowered voting age from 21 to 18
War Powers Act - Limits the president's war-making powers
Civil Rights
After having fought in WWII and moved to the cities to work in factories, African Americans made more money and formed more contacts with one another at work, on the street, and in churches. These changes helped make the civil rights protests successful.
Civil Rights Organizations
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality
Rosa Parks - refused to give bus seat to white man
arrested
sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Supreme Court ruled separate was not equal.
Marches, sit-ins, strikes and protests were used to affect change.
1963 March on Washington, - Martin Luther King Jr. - famous "I have a dream" speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - law banned segregation in public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent job discrimination
Freedom Summer - 1964
Brought N college students into MI to register blacks to vote.
1965 - Voting Rights Act - banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote.
Malcolm X - leader of the Nation of Islam - urged African Americans to separate from whites.
Vietnam
Late 1800's until WWII France ruled Vietnam as a colony
1930- Ho Chi Minh (revolutionary leader) united 3 Communist groups - called for an independent Vietnam
organized protests against the French govt.
1940 - Japan took over Indochina (including Vietnam)
1945 - Japanese surrendered to the Allies.
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam's independence
France tries to regain control of Vietnam
1946 - war between Viet Minh (Vietnamese nationalists under Ho Chi Minh) and France
U.S. has a policy of containment (working to prevent the spread of communism)
1950 - U.S. gives $10 million in military aid to the French
Domino Theory - if a country fell to communism, nearby countries would also topple
1954 - Viet Minh overrun French forces.
Vietnam is divided on the 17th parallel (N and S)
N - controlled by Ho Chi Minh and the Communists
S - Diem and anti-communists
Diem failed to establish a democratic govt. His govt was corrupt.
Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists) in S oppose Diem.
N. Vietnam supports the Viet Cong by sending supplies and troops from N to S along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Late 1963 U.S. has more than 16,000 military personnel in Vietnam.
Communist Threats
Bay of Pigs - Cuban exiles trained by the U.S. invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. Troops are crushed in the invasion
Berlin Wall - 1961 Soviet Union threatened to close off Western access to W. Berlin because so many E. Germans were fleeing to escape communism - Soviets and E. Germans built the Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis - Oct. 1962 U.S. learned that the Soviets had put nuclear missiles in Cuba. - The Soviets eventually agreed to remove the missiles
1963 Diem is killed in a military coup
1964 President Johnson's military advisers make plans to bomb N. Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - gave the president the power to use military force in Vietnam
1965 - Johnson began bombing N. Vietnam
Sent combat ground troops to Vietnam
By 1968 there were more than 546,000 American military personnel in S. Vietnam
Troubles for soldiers in Vietnam
guerrilla warfare - surprise attacks by small bands of fighters
suffocating heat
constant rain
difficulty figuring out who the enemy was
U.S. drops bombs of napalm (jellied gasoline that burns violently)
planes sprayed Agent Orange - a chemical that kills plants
Tet Offensive
A surprise attack on U.S. military bases and more than 100 cities and towns in S. Vietnam
1968 - Johnson said he would stop bombing most of N. Vietnam and seek to bargain for peace.
My Lai massacre - 1969
A U.S. platoon rounded up and shot between 175 and 500 unarmed civilians, mostly women, children and old men
To Americans this represented a horrifying break down in morality and discipline in the armed forces.
Back home - Kent state University in Ohio - 4 students killed during an antiwar demonstration
doves - those who opposed the war
hawks - those who supported the war
Jan 1973 - U.S. agreed to withdraw all its troops
N. Vietnam agreed not to invade S. Vietnam
1975 N. Vietnam invades S. Vietnam.
Communist forces capture Saigon and rename it Ho Chi Minh City.
26th Amendment - lowered voting age from 21 to 18
War Powers Act - Limits the president's war-making powers