2solidayvietnam

By bella soliday
  • Period: to

    2solidayvietnam

  • dien bien phu

    the French were defeated by the Viet Minh rebels, which marked the end of French involvement in Vietnam.

  • creation of the ho chi minh trail

    support to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. It was a combination of truck routes and paths for foot and bicycle traffic.

  • United States becomes actively involved

    troops arrive in southern vietnam

  • operation ranch land

    clear vegetation along highways

  • Gulf of tonkin attack

    an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin was hit by a torpedo by North Vietnamese forces

  • Gulf of tonkin resolution

    president johnson had the power to defend south eastern asia

  • Rolling thunder begins

    a limiting long lastin bomb offensive (lasted 3 years)

  • U.S offers peace for economic aid proposal

    the U.S. offers Northern Vietnam economic aid in exchange for peace

  • President johnson commits over 60,000 troops to vietnam

    put 60,000 troops in vietnam

  • First major battle of vietnam war for american units

    troops attack Song Be, a South Vietnamese provincial capital

  • TET offensive begins

    communists creating TET offensive

  • My lai massacre

    U.S. Charlie Company kills two hundred people

  • Operation junction city

    destroy Vietcong bases and the Vietcong military headquarters for South Vietnam

  • Khe sahn attacked by vietcong

    operated out of the DMZ that divides Northern and Southern Vietnam

  • Nixon takes office

    Nixon wins presidency and becomes the new president

  • Operation menu

    bombing of Northern Vietnamese and Vietcong bases and Cambodia.

  • All but 133,000 us tropps have come home

    133,000 troops remain in southern vietnam

  • Peace talks resume

    resumed in paris for nothern vietnam and the US

  • Cease fire signed

    both southern and nothern Vietnam sign a cease fire

  • Peace talks break down

    peace talks break down between nothern vietnam and the US

  • Nixon resigns

    Nixon resigns

  • Last cuasaulties for the US and final evacuation

    In 15 years,a million NVA and Vietcong troops and a million Southern Vietnamese soldiers died. thousands of civilians are dead