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The Begining of The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
commander Vo Nguyen Giap took over the French, and got control over Vietnam withing hours with the help of the Chinese on his side. -
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The Vietnam War
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The Signing of The Geneva Accords of 1954.
The Geneva Accords came to an understanding in 1954 to bring the end to the first Indochina war of Vietnam against France that kept going from 1946-1954. The Accords created principles as the withdrawal of French troops from a noteworthy piece of Southeast Asia. It likewise divided Vietnam into the North and the South. Also that Vietnam would have national decisions in 1956. -
NGO DINH DIEM, FIRST PRESIDENT OF SOUTH VIETNAM
NGO DINH DIEM becomes president of south Vietnam becuase he was very popluar for his anit-communism beliefs and they didnt want to be ruled by it. -
John F. Kennedy elected president
Jhon F.Kennedy takes over former president Eisenhower place and tries to bring peace to the Vietnam war. -
Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem and his counsel, his younger brother Ngo dinh Nhu, were captured after the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) had been fruitful in a bleeding overnight attack on Gia Long Palace in Saigon. -
JFK Assassination
President Kennedy is killed while trying to put Vietnam war to an end. -
Johnson signs Civil Rights Act
Johnson took over after JFK was killed, even though the war did not start yet between America and Vietnam There were movements for civil rights back in America. Therefore, Jhonson took the step forward and signed the Civil Rights Act that every one is equal. -
North Vietnamese Attack First
North Vietnamese attack two U.S. destroyers sitting in international waters -
Operation Rolling Thunder
U.S Starts to attack back at North Vietnam -
US Troops Invade Vietnam
In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson sends 3,500 U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. -
VIETNAM WAR ESCALATES
In March 1965, Johnson made the decision–with strong backing from the American public–to send U.S. battle strengths into fight in Vietnam. By June, 82,000 battle troops were positioned in Vietnam, and General William Westmoreland was calling 175,000 all the more before the end of 1965 to shore up the battling South Vietnamese army. -
Mai Lai
hundreds of Vietnamese civilians killed in the town Mai Lai by U.S soldiers. -
US completely withdrawls from Vietnam
All of the U.S troops are out of Vietnam -
South surrenders
South Vietnam surrenders to the communists. -
communistm is spread
Vietnam is unified as a communist country, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
