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Vietnam declares independance
Japan surrendered to the allies ending WW2 in 1945. Japan departed Vietnam the same year. Vietnam declared its independence from France in 1945. Vietnam was occupied by Japan during WW2, but it had been a French colony for more than a century prior. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Accords were an arranged settlement which brought an end to the first Indochina war. A ceasefire was signed and France agreed to withdraw its troops from the region. Vietnam declared independence from France. The U.S. split Vietnam into North and South -
Vietnamization
This was President Richard Nixon's plan to encourage the South Vietnamese to take more responsibilty for fighting the war. The plan was to hope that this policy would enable the United States to gradually withdraw all their soldiers from Vietnam. -
Tonkin Resolution
North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin were alleged to have attacked without provocation U.S. destroyers that were reporting intelligence information to South Vietnam. Johnson decided immediate air attacks on North Vietnam and then congress passed the Gulf Of Tonkin agreement which was the resolution. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
a limited but long lasting bombing offensive -
seante hearings on war
On January 24, 1966, a journalist who had interviewed more than 200 U.S. troops in Vietnam wrote to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman. The reporter explained that the war is not going well and said that there might have to be a stalemate which was the Senate Hearings On War. -
Massive demonstrations at the pentagon
On October 21, 1967, over 70,000 demonstrators came to Washington, D.C. to confront the War Makers. It was the first biannual anti-war demonstrations to fuse protest -
Tet Offensive
On January 30, 1968, Viet Cong launched the Tet Offense to create a governing apparatus that would give the communists control of South Vietnam. -
Nixon is elected president
On November 5, 1968 Richard Nixon was elected president for the United States of America. -
US withdrawl of troops
Over 540,000 troops were withdrawled fromt the war -
Kent state shooting
Massacre accured at Kent state University in Ohio and involved in the shooting of unarmed college student in the Ohio National Gaurd -
26th Amendment
Setting the voting age at 18 -
War Powers Act
In 1973 the War Powers Act was a federal law intended to check the power of the President in committing the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. -
Surrender
On April 30, 1975 South Vietnam surrenders to the communists of North Vietnam.
