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Vietnam War Begins
Who-North Vietnam V. South Vietnam
What- a war against the spread of communism to Vietnam
When-1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975
Where- the war was mostly fought in South Vietnam, but the United States attempted to move the war
-this was the first war in which the U.S used helicopter and war transportation and weapons.
Why-the V Con group wanted to bring communism to Vietnam, with support of the Soviet Union, and China
-there was no clear winner of the war but the United states withdrew. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
*ended April 19, 1961
More than a thousand Cuban exiles stormed the beaches at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, intending to ignite an uprising that would overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall Created
August 15, 1961 - switched from barbed wire to concrete
Before the wall was built, Berliners on both sides of the city could move around fairly freely: They crossed the East-West border to work, to shop, to go to the theater and the movies. The wall was created, though, to keep western fascists out of socialist East Germany. It also served to help stop the flow of refugees from East Germany to West Germany once the Soviet Union took control of West Germany after WWII. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 28, 1962 - end date
After the failed U.S. attempt to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba with the Bay of Pigs invasion, and while the Kennedy administration planned Operation Mongoose, in July 1962 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev reached a secret agreement with Cuban premier Fidel Castro to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt. -
Limited Test Ban Treaty
The Limited Test Ban Treaty was written in order to prevent environmental damage. Nuclear weapons were not allowed to be tested in space, underwater, in the atmosphere, or underground. Fear of radiation sickness rose as after a test bombing, done by the U.S. in March of 1954, contaminated a Japanese fishing boat, its crew falling sick with radiation, and radioactive rain falling on Japan. The treaty was signed by the "Big Three": the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. -
Hotline Established
In the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. came dangerously close to an all out nuclear war. It had been found out that the U.S.S.R. had missiles planted on a trajectory to the U.S., specifically Cuba. Efforts to resolve this issue were slow and delayed because of the bad communication systems of the time. Messages between President Kennedy and Khrushchev were encrypted telegraphs and messages. So, the Hotline created a direct line from the U.S. to Moscow, Russia. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
August 7th,1964
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. During the spring of 1964, military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North, but at that time President Lyndon B. Johnson and his advisers feared that the public would not support an expansion of the war. -
Tet Offensive
*ended September 23, 1968
During the Lunar New Year (or "Tet) holiday, North Vietnamese and Communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. Both the U.S. and South Vietnamese military sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening the United States' public support for the war in Vietnam. -
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The NPT was signed by the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and a few other countries in order to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The countries were not allowed to help each other create or produce any nuclear weapons. At the time, it was only effective for the bigger countries like the U.S., the U.K., the Soviet Union, China, France, etc. Although it was signed in 1968, the NPT didn't go into full force until March 1970. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization is a program, set up by Richard Nixon, to help "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces", basically he wanted to assist south Vietnam by giving them the information and weapons to fight the war against Communism themselves. this policy was as a result of the lack of support, in the united states, towards the war. unfortunately the policy failed, and south Vietnam fell to communism.
