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Ho Chi Minh sent a letter to the President of the U.S. who was Harry S. Truman at the time. He asked for the support of the U.S. in hope to gain independence for Vietnam.
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The Viet Minh had attacked the French forces and the first Indochine War had begun. This war was also known as the France-Vietnamese War.
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The U.S. had given France military aid of $15 million dollars.
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The French surrender to the Viet Minh.
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The first combat death was reported of an American serviceman in Vietnam. This death is what marked the beginning of the Vietnam War.
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A buddhist monk set himself on fire in portest of the South Vietnamese government, the religous intolerance, and the discriminatory policies.
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In the U.S. the first mass public demonstrations against the American involvement in the war in Vietname took place.
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To demonstrate against the war at Vietnam, thousands marched to the Pentagon.
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The war in Vietnam becomes the longest war in U.S. history.
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President Richard Nixon announces his plan for "Vietnamization" of the war. This means training and transitioning South Vietnamese troops to take over the roles that American troops have been doing.
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President Nixon had promised to withdraw 35,000 troops from the war in Vietnam.
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President Nixon announces that American and South Vietnamese have invaded Cambodia to destroy bases that have provided aid to the NLF, in a nationally televised broadcast,
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The House and the Senate voted to withdrawl all of the U.S. troops in Vietnam by the end of the year.
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President Nixon ordered a massive bombing of North Vietnam in response to a major attack that was launched in South Vietnam by the NLF.
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The representatives from South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the United States signed a peace agreement where a ceasefire was declared and the U.S. agreed to withdraw combat troops.
