Vietnam

By LeahHigginbotham

  • Kennedy Assassination

    Kennedy Assassination
    John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza

  • Lyndon Johnson Presidency

    Lyndon Johnson Presidency
    Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice.

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin
    The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, drew the United States more directly into the Vietnam War. It involved two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.

  • War protest in Washington 1967

    War protest in Washington 1967
    In Washington, D.C. nearly 100,000 people gather to protest the American war effort in Vietnam. More than 50,000 of the protesters marched to the Pentagon to ask for an end to the conflict.

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces.

  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre
    The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968.

  • Nixon's Presidency

    Nixon's Presidency
    Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office.

  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords
    The Paris Peace Accords (PPA) was an agreement between the government of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG), the Republic of South Vietnam, and the United States to bring an end to the Vietnam War.

  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, depending on context, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975.