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Vietnam declares Indepence
Japan surrendered to the allies ending WW2 in 1945. Japan departed Vietnam the same year. Vietnam declared its independence from France in 1945. Vietnam was occupied by Japan during WW2, but it had been a French colony for more than a century prior. -
Geneva Accords
The Geneva Accords were an arranged settlement which brought an end to the first Indochina war. A ceasefire was signed and France agreed to withdraw its troops from the region. Vietnam declared independence from France. The U.S. split Vietnam into North and South. -
Eisenhower's Re-election
Dwight Eisenhower was re-elected as president of the United States on November 7, 1956. -
JFK elected President
John F. Kennedy was elected president as the United States on January 2, 1960. -
National Liberation Front organized in South Vietnam
A political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam war. Many soldiers were being recruited. Souther Vietnamses people established the National Liberation Front in 1960 to encourage the participation of non-communists. -
100,000 protestors in New York City
A bunch of people were non-violently protesting the war in New York City on May 2, 1964. -
Gulf of Tonkin Agreement
In 1964, North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin were alleged to have attacked without provocation U.S. destroyers that were reporting intelligence information to South Vietnam. Johnson decided immediate air attacks on North Vietnam and then congress passed the Gulf Of Tonkin agreement which was the resolution. -
Senate Hearings on Vietnam Conflict
On January 24, 1966, a journalist who had interviewed more than 200 U.S. troops in Vietnam wrote to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman. The reporter explained that the war is not going well and said that there might have to be a stalemate which was the Senate Hearings On War. -
Protestors march to Pentagon
On October 21, 1967, over 70,000 demonstrators came to Washington, D.C. to confront the War Makers. It was the first biannual anti-war demonstrations to fuse protest. -
Tet Offensive
On January 30, 1968, Viet Cong launched the Tet Offense to create a governing apparatus that would give the communists control of South Vietnam. -
Vietnamization
This was President Richard Nixon's plan to encourage the South Vietnamese to take more responsibilty for fighting the war. The plan was to hope that this policy would enable the United States to gradually withdraw all their soldiers from Vietnam. -
Nixon orders invasion of Cambodia
On April 24 to April 30, 1970, Nixon orders invasion of Cambody which was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during the 1970's by the United States and the South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. -
Four students killed in antiwar protest at Kent State
On May 4th, 1970, four students were killed at Kent University. They were protesting against the war and were killed. -
War Powers Act
In 1973 the War Powers Act was a federal law intended to check the power of the President in committing the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. -
Paris Accord
The Paris Peace Accords of 1973 intended to make peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War, ended direct U.S. military involvement, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. -
South Vietnam surrenders to Communists
On April 30, 1975 South Vietnam surrenders to the communists of North Vietnam.
