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Vietnam Project Timeline

By 21LRiley

  • French Colonial Rule begins

  • Viet Minh Established

    Vietnam independence league founded by Ho Chi Minh

  • Indochina Independence

  • Vietnam vs. France

    Guerilla Warfare begins

  • Truman Doctorine

    Help communist threatened countries

  • China Communist

    Mao Zedong wins civil war

  • Communist powers aid Ho Chi Minh

  • The Geneva Accords

    North and South Vietnam
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • First U.S. Soldier killed

  • Ho Chi Minh replaced by Le Duan

  • NLF formed

  • JFK sends 400 Green Berets

  • Period: to

    JFK Presidency

  • Agent Orange starts being used

  • JFK Assassination

  • Period: to

    LBJ Presidency

  • USS Madox Attacked

  • LBJ starts 3-year bombing campaign

  • Draft Increases to 35,000 per month

  • The Battle of la Drang Valley

  • Huge Vietnam Protests

    Washington, NYC, San Fransisco

  • Tet Offensive

  • Period: to

    Nixon Presidency

  • Kent State Shooting

  • 591 POWs returned

  • Paris Peace Accords

  • Watergate

  • The Fall of Saigon

    War ends