english II History time line

By mccrysc21
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  • Mao Zedong took power in china

  • Korean War began

  • War ended in a stalemate

  • Military advisers were to train and arm the South Vietnamese

  • Eisenhower made a speach

  • John F. Kennedy took office

  • Kennedy's assassination. American Military adviserves in Vietnam had risen.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Full-scale military intervention began

  • First mass demonstration

  • Walt Rostow, 'The war was going well and heading toward victory.'

  • Marshall McLuhan wrote about Vietman

  • Evacuation of Saigon

  • party leaders followed China's lead

  • Bill Clinton lifted the U.S trade embargo