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Independent vietnam
Ho Chi Minh makes vietnam independent, it is then called the Democratic Republic of vietnam -
South Vietnamese Preisdent is killed
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is killed during a coup. -
North Vietnamese attack U.S. ships
North Vietnamese attack U.S. Destroyers that were in international waters -
U.S. arrivers
U.S. combat troops arrive in vietnam -
Mass murders
U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of vietnamese people in a town called Mai Lai -
Ho Chi Minh's Death
The communist leader of Vietnam Dies at the age of 79 years old. -
Nixon's announcement
President Nixon announces that U.S. troops will attack enemy locations in cambodia. This causes nationwide protests and was very large with college students -
U.S. leaves vietnam
The last of the united states troops are withdrawn from the vietnam war
