The Vietnam Era The Vietnam Era began after the Cold War Era. North and South Vietnam were created in 1954. Ho Chi Minh was the communist leader of The Brown vs. Topeka case was in 1954. It was the case that ended legal segregation in America education systems. Thurgood Marshall won the Brown vs. Topeka case and eventually became the first black man on the Supreme Court. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream," speech was in 1963. John F. Kennedy sent advisors called the "Green Beret" into Vietnam to train and stop communism. America was afraid of the domino effect, that was the idea of when communism starts it will spread like cancer to other countries. The Gu