Vietnam

By sarryberry
  • Period: to

    US involment in Vietnam

  • Ho Chi Minh Creates Provisional Government:

    Following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces, Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government. Japan transfers all power to Ho's Vietminh.

  • Indochina War Begins

    Following months of steadily deteriorating relations, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam launches its first consorted attack against the French.

  • Help for the French

    Trueman and Eisenhower send over supplies to help french

  • Geneva Accords

    France and Ho Chi Minh sign the Geneva Accords, in which Vietnam is to be divided at the seventeenth parallel until elections can be held in 1956 to reunify the country. The South Vietnamese government and the United States refuse to sign, though both promise to abide by the agreement.

  • Kennedy

    President John F. Kennedy orders more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war against the Vietcong guerrillas. U.S. backing includes new equipment and more than 3,000 military advisors and support personnel.

  • Diem Coup

  • Tonkin Incident

    three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats under fire
    1st part: Maddox attacked by NVA torpedo boat. North Vietnam provoked by mercenaries hired by CIA
    second part: Tonkin Ghosts, Eager sonar operator thought it was an attack but there was no attack

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gives President Lyndon Johnson the power to take whatever actions he sees necessary to defend South Vietnam against Viet Cong forces.

  • First regular troops

  • TURNING POINT #1 Tet Offensive

    A photo was taken that pictures General Nguyan Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner.

  • TURNING POINT #2 TET OFFENSIVE

    "Tet is named after lunar new year of tet. U.S. citizen have been told we were winning and that the enemy was on the brink of defeat.

  • My Lai Massacre

    In the hamlet of My Lai, U.S. Charlie Company kills about two hundred civilians. Although only one member of the division is tried and found guilty of war crimes, the repercussions of the atrocity is felt throughout the Army. However rare, such acts undid the benefit of countless hours of civic action by Army units and individual soldiers and raised unsettling questions about the conduct of the war

  • Troops in Vietnam picked in this year

    Support from home

  • Nixon

    President Nixon continued the policy, ordering a steady reductio in ground forces.

  • Leak of Pentagon Papers

    In paper was written that the US is not winning the war but the population was told otherwise. It lead to generational change - 60s and beyond no longer accepted the government told the truth to people.

  • Final Stages of War

    Last troops withdraw under Paris Peace Accords. Also POW's returned. Watergate crippled Nixon and caused end of air support to South.

  • Vietnam War officially ends

    The Vietnam War is officially over for the United States. The last U.S. combat soldier leaves Vietnam, but military advisors and some Marines remain.

  • War Power Act

    Congress passes War Power Act. President must notify Congress within 48 hours of deployment. President must withdrawal forces within 60 days without explicit Congressional support.

  • South Vietnam Fall

    All of Vietnam now united under communist rule. Current government of Vietnam places number of deaths at 3.1 million Vietnamese military and civilians killed in the war.