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First Protest
The very first protest to the U.S. getting involved in Vietnam was in 1945. U.S. Marine esailors condemed the U.S. for using U.S. merchant ships to transport french troops to "sunjugate the native population" of vientnam. -
Start of the War
The Vietnam war started on November 1 1955. The war started because President Eisenhower did not want Communism. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
President lyndon johnson announces that 2 days earlier, U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the Northern Vietnamese. -
Protest in NYC
300,000 people, who were apart of the Spring Mobilization Committee, protest in New York City and in San Francisco. -
Stop Draft Week
585 people were arrested because they we protesting the war with "Stop Draft Week". -
The My Lai incident
american soilders assulted the hamlet of My Lai. Capt. Ernest L. Medina, had ordered his men to burn and destroy the hamlet of My Lai -
invasion of cambodia
Richard M. Nixon authorized the invasion of U.S. military forces into cambodia to disrupt the supply line. -
Kent State Incident
Involved the shooting of unarmed college student by the Ohio National Guard. This Killed 4 studentd and wounding 9 others. -
Inauguration Protests
March against Racism and the War in Washington, D.C. -
End of War
Vietnam war ends
