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President Truman sent the MAAG over to Vietnam to help the French in the first Indochina war. -
The French-held garrison fell after a four-month siege led by Ho Chi Minh, causing the French to leave Vietnam. -
The Gulf of Tonkin incident ended up with the U.S. becoming more engaged in the Vietnam War after we were carrying out covert operations close to North Vietnamese waters and then they responded. -
In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war without Congress' approval. Authorizing President Johnson to do whatever is necessary to assist South Vietnam. -
In late 1965 the U.S. decided they would try a new strategy to destroy communism in the North; search and destroy missions. -
The U.S. sustained and gradually increased bombing of North Vietnam. -
It was the first major offensive by the U.S. military on the North and they were successful. -
U.S. and Australian military forces mount a large search-and-destroy mission finding a vast complex of tunnels containing the Viet Cong regional headquarters. -
A search and destroy operation with the objective to find the PAVN and VC bases and force them to fight. -
An operation conducted by the U.S. with the objective to eradicate the Iron Triangle. -
A coordinated series of attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam by the North attempted to encourage the U.S. to lessen its military involvement, however, it achieved the opposite. -
A secret tactical bombing campaign conducted in Eastern Cambodia in an attempt to resolve the flow of North Vietnamese soldiers and supplies into South Vietnam.