Conflict in Indochina 1954 - 79

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  • Ho Chi Minh settles in Paris and joins the Communist Party

  • Ho Chi Minh moves to China and forms the Vietnamese Communist party

  • Japanese forces invade Vietnam

  • Japanese surrender

  • Ho Chi Minh's forces enter Saigon to sieze power

  • Ho Chi Minh declares the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

  • The First Indochina War breaks out

  • China becomes Communist

  • Eisenhower comes to power

  • Period: to

    Eisenhower is president of the USA

  • The Geneva Conference for Vietnam

  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

  • Ngo Dinh Diem moves against the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen private army

  • Ho Chi Minh introduced land reform policies

  • Land reform pursued through a cooperative strategy

  • Ngo Dinh Diem establishes the Agroville Program

  • The Ho Chi Minh trail enters use

  • National Liberation Front established

  • John F Kennedy comes to power

  • JFK increases the number of US advisors in Vietnam from 900 to 1025

  • Period: to

    JFK is president of the USA

  • Diem introduces the Strategic Hamlet Program

  • Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated

  • Period: to

    LBJ is president of the USA

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident begins

  • USS Turner Joy reports coming under fire from North Vietnamese vessels

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed

  • General Nguyen Van Thieu becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam

  • The Battle for Hill 875

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    The Battle of Khe San

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    The Tet Offensive