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Eisenhower Presidency Begins
"As president, Eisenhower ended the war in Korea and at home oversaw a decade of rising prosperity." -
Dien Bien Phu
Turing point in Indochina - a battle fought between French and the Vietminh (Vietnamese Communist and nationalist). The French wanted to reclaim Vietnam as one of their colonies, while the Vietnamese wanted their independence. -
Geneva Accords
Resulted from a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, from 26 April to 21 July 1954 that focused primarily on resolving the war between French forces and those of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, led by the nationalist-communist Ho Chi Minh. -
Kennedy Presidency Begins
"As president, Kennedy confronted mounting Cold War tensions in Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere. He also led a renewed drive for public service and eventually provided federal support for the growing civil rights movement." -
Johnson Presidency Begins
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Gulf of Tonkin
AKA - the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved either one or two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin -
Tonkin Resolution
Gave President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose “communist aggression” in Southeast Asia. Give U.S right o fight against southeast Asia -
Fulbright Commision
US-UK Fulbright Commission was created by a treaty signed by both countries
It is a non-profit organization based in London, UK. Its aim is to foster mutual cultural understanding through educational exchange between both nations. -
Tet Offensive
Considered a turning point of the war - series of attacks by northern Vietnamese rebel forces on cities and towns throughout South Vietnam. Weakened U.S public support for the war -
My Lai Massacre
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam. -
Vietnamization
US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
Nixon Presidency Begins
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Invasion of Cambodia
President Richard Nixon declared to a television audience that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People's Army, were to invade Cambodia. The invasion was under the pretext of disrupting the North Vietnamese supply lines. -
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg strengthened public opposition to the Vietnam War in 1971 when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times -
Pentagon Papers
Revealed that the Harry S. Truman administration gave military aid to France in its colonial war against the communist-led Viet Minh, thus directly involving the United States in Vietnam -
Christmas Bombing
President Richard Nixon authorized secret bombing raids in Cambodia because he believed North Vietnam was transporting troops and supplies through neighboring Cambodia into South Vietnam. American B-52s and fighter-bombers dropped over 20,000 tons of bombs on the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution was passed in 1973 by both Houses of Congress, overriding the veto of President Nixon. It was passed to reassert Congressional authority over the decision to send American troops to war - a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Paris Peace Conference Accords
AKA, Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Ford Presidency Begins
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Fall of Saigon
Saigon, the capital city of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30th1975. The fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War