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Beginning
A long lasting conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, also known as the Viet cong , against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United states Called the “American War” in Vietnam. The war was also part of a larger regional conflict. And a idea of the Cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. -
Indochina
The First Indochina War began in france. Fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the South dates from September 1945. The conflict took out a range of forces, with the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Emperor Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army against the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap. Most of it took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam, although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended -
Domino theory
The domino theory was a theory helpful from the 1950s to the 1980s, that made sure that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. The domino theory was used by all people during the war during the Cold War to justify the need for American intervention around the world. Historyplace.com -
Vietcong
The Viet was a organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959–1975), and came together on the winning side. It had different kinds of army people , as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam , the regular North Vietnamese army. -
Agent orange
It killed plants so the the US could see people out in the brush. -
Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident also known as the USS Maddox Incident, was something involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters. On August 2, 1964, the USS Maddox, while doing signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron.[ A sea battle was not to good and resulted, in which the Maddox expended over two hundred and eighty 3-inch and 5-inch shells, and in which four USN F-8 Crusader jet fight -
Operation Rolling thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual US 2nd Air Division , US Navy, and Vietnam Air Force aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam North Vietnam from March 21965 until November 2 1968, during the Vietnam War.The four reasons of it were to make the sagging morale of the Saigon thing in the Republic of Vietnam stronger , to convince North Vietnam to stop its support for the communist insurgency in South Vietnam without taking any groun -
Ground troops in Vietnam
Because of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964, Johnson, with the authority given to him by Congress in the time of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, decided to increase the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. On March 8 1965 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam. -
Tet offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military things of the Vietnam War, started on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their friends. It was a thing of non expected attacks against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
Vietnamezation
Vietnamization was a policy that Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end the U.S.' involvement in the war and "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops". -
Kent
The Kent State shootingsoccurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
Watergate
The water gate scandal was a incident that 5 people were arrested from. There were 5 guys working for Nixon who were caught spying at a democratic thing. They were paid hush money not to tell anyone about what they were doing. After this people new that Nixon Cheated to win the election so he resigned -
Withrawn fro vietnam
A group of the U.S. Infantry Division leaves Saigon in the initial withdrawal of U.S. troops. The 814 soldiers were the first of 25,000 troops that were withdrawn in the first stage of the U.S. out from the war. There would be 14 more increments in the withdrawal, but the last U.S. troops did not leave until after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January. -
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