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Ho Chi Minh
was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam. Wikipedia -
growth of American involvement in French Indochina
The United States’ interest in Asia escalated in late 1941, after Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbour and Washington responded by declaring war on Japan. The Viet Minh was formed the same year, as an underground movement to resist both the French and Japanese. -
Dien Bien Phu
French forces occupied the Dien Bien Phu valley in late 1953, Viet Minh commander Vo Nguyen Giap amassed troops and placed heavy artillery in caves of the mountains overlooking the French camp. -
The expansion of American involvement in the war
a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
the assassination of Diem
Following the overthrow of his government by South Vietnamese military forces the day before, President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers -
course of the war from 1964 to 1975, including bombing campaigns of the North
The causes of the Vietnam War were derived from the symptoms, components and consequences of the Cold War. The causes of the Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. -
American support for and opposition to the war in Vietnam
demonstrations in 1964 against the escalating role of the U.S. military in the Vietnam War and grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years -
Effects on the Political, economic, and social situation in America.
Anti-war protests being forming. When President Johnson issued the draft because he felt that America need to take a more aggressive action against North Vietnam. More than 58,000 loved ones were lost. Nothing came with this war. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. -
Tet Offensive
called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and the NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns -
the incursion into Cambodia
series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. -
the Paris Peace Accords
Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Fall of Saigon
was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975.
