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The USA is worried of the NLF
The USA is worried that the communist NLF was going to take over and make all of Vietnam war -
JFK deploys forces
JFK sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorizes secret operations against the Viet Cong. -
Operation Ranch Hand
In Operation Ranch Hand, U.S. aircraft start spraying Agent Orange and other herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam to kill vegetation that would offer cover and food for guerrilla forces. -
Unstable south Vietnam government
The United States backs a South Vietnam military coup against the unpopular Diem, which ends in the brutal killing of Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. Between 1963 and 1965, 12 different governments take the lead in South Vietnam as military coups replace one government after another. -
USS Maddox attacked
USS Maddox is allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin leading Johnson to call for air strikes on North Vietnamese patrol boat bases. Two U.S. aircraft are shot down and one U.S. pilot, Everett Alvarez, Jr., becomes the first U.S. military personnel to be taken prisoner by the north. This is what brings us into the war officially -
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
The attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin spur Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorizes the president to “take all necessary measures, including the use of armed force” against any aggressor in the conflict. -
Bombing N Vietnam
President Johnson orders the bombing of targets in North Vietnam in Operation Flaming Dart in retaliation for a Viet Cong raid at the U.S. base in the city of Pleiku and at a nearby helicopter base at Camp Holloway. -
Operation starlight
5,500 marines fight back against the Vietcong in the first major ground offense by us forces -
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Operation linebacker
Nixon orders the military to drop massive amounts of bombs 20,000 tons of tnt in total over north NAM -
Paris Peace Accords
Nixon signed this to end direct US involvement in the war leading the north to accept the cease fire but never quit planning and at the end successfully take over the south and making the terrible socialist republic