United States Involvement in the Vietnam War

By allisonkent

  • Ho Chi Mihn declares Vietnam's Independence

  • U.S pledges military aid to the French

  • US President Eisenhower outlines the domino theory

  • Geneva Accords

  • The French leave Vietnam

  • Kennedy is elected US President

  • Diem

  • Kennedy assassinated

  • Johnson becomes US President

  • Gulf of Tonkin

  • First American combat troops enter into Vietnam

  • Tet Offensive

  • My Lai Massacre

  • Nixon elected US President

  • Nixon announces Vietnamization

  • Cease fire signed in Paris

  • End of draft announced

  • Last American troops leave Vietnam

  • US President Nixon resigns

  • Ford becomes US President

  • Remaining Americans evacuate Vietnam

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