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Ho Chi Minh is born
He we would go on to be the leader of communist North Vietnam -
President Eisenhower declares "Domino Theory"
Eisenhower was the first person to refer/ relate the countries in danger of communist take over, to dominos. -
The Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu
This is when they took over the anti-communist fight inside of Vietnam for about 20 years. -
Vietnam declares independence from France, but neither France nor the United States recognized Vietnam as a separate nation.
They ended up turning very communist and changed the whole thing of Vietnam it just ended bad from there on. -
The Geneva Accords caused Vietnam to be split into North and South.
At the 17th parallel is where the nation was divided into two at. -
Ngo Dinh Diem cancels elections in Vietnam
Instead on having an election they decided on having a war. The unification of the country again. -
The National Liberation Front is formed.
They were also known as the Viet Cong. They occupied the northern part of Vietnam -
South Vietnamese monk sets himself on fire
He belong to the Buddhist religion and he was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs. -
The united states withdraws support of Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of South vietnam
After the U.S. withdrew support Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated. This shows everyone there wasn't as anti-communist like him. -
President Kennedy is assassinated, making Lyndon B. Johnson president.
If JFK were still alive during Vietnam, most likely we wouldn't have sent as many troops into there like LBJ did. He wouldn't have completely pulled out all the troops instead he would probably find a middle ground and limit the number of people going. -
President Johnson claims a U.S. ship had been fired upon by North vietnamese
He claimed the USS Made had been fired upon by the communist North Vietnamese. People are angered that they did that and they want to go fight the war now for retaliation. -
First combat troops arrive in Vietnam
First U.S. troops to arrive as 3500 Marines land to defend base at da nang. They join 23000 Amarican military
