12 Events of the Vietnam War

  • Japanese took control of Vietnam

    Japanese took control of Vietnam
    Japanese took control of Vietnam, the next year Ho Chi Minh returned home from the Vietminh.
  • Died Bien Phu

    Died Bien Phu
    They were forced to surrender in May when the Vietnimh overran the French outpost at Dien Bien Phu
  • Speech movement

    Speech movement
    In 1945 the Free Speech Movement gained prominence at the university of California Berkeley.
  • Ho Chi Minh

    Ho Chi Minh
    On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh stood in the middle of a huge crowd in the north city of Hanoi and Declared Vietnam an independent nation.
  • Lieutenant Colonel

    Lieutenant Colonel
    Luitenent Colonel A. Peter Dewy was on his way to the Saigon airport in Vietnam.
  • SDS

    SDS
    SDS helped organize a march on Washington D.C., by some 200,000 protesters.
  • 1966

    1966
    November of 1966 the rally in Washington drew more than 30,000. Then in February of 1966 the Johnson administration charged deferments for college students requiring students to be good academic standing in order to be granted a deferment.
  • Johnson's presidency

      Johnson's presidency
    The war and Johnson's presidency took a drastic change for the worse.
  • U.S military

    U.S military
    16,000 U.S military personal were in South Vietnam.
  • President nixion

    President nixion
    President Nixon announced the first U.S with drawls from Vietnam
  • November 1973

    November 1973
    In November 1973, congress passed the war powers act, which stipulated that president must inform congress within 48 hours of sending forces into a hostile area without declaration of war.
  • April 30th

    April 30th
    April 30,1975, North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon and captured the city. Then soon after, south Vietnam surrendered to north Vietnam.