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Geneva Accords Divide Vietnam
According to the terms of the Geneva Accords, Vietnam would hold national elections in 1956 to reunify the country. The division at the seventeenth parallel would vanish with the elections. The United States and many anti-Communists did not support the Accords. -
Diem Overthrown
With only the palace guard remaining to defend President Diệm and his brother, the generals called the palace offering Diệm exile if he surrendered. However, that evening, Diệm and his entourage escaped in an underground passage to Cholon, where they were captured the following morning, November 2. The brothers were executed in the back of an armoured personnel carrier by Captain Nguyen Van Nhung while en route to the Vietnamese Join -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This was passed in responce to a sea battle during the war. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the name given to America’s sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Operation Rolling Thunder was a demonstration of America’s near total air supremacy during the Vietnam War. -
My Lai Massacre
Over 300 apparently unarmed civilians including women, children, and the elderly were killed by the Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division in the village of My Lai. -
Nixon Announces Invasion of Cambodia
President Richard Nixon announced to a national television audience that US troops were invading Cambodia, the country west of Vietnam through which the North Vietnamese military was supplying their troops in the South. In fact, the US had been conducting bombing raids in Cambodia for over a year.
