vietnam timeline

  • Vietnam war before combat troops

    Vietnam war before combat troops
    before the war started money and supplies for people in Vietnam and this was going on for ten years from 1955-1965
  • gulf of Tonkin incendent

    gulf of Tonkin incendent
    this happened when 2 Vietnamese gunboats attacked the USS Maddox. and sent 9 torpedoes
  • gulf of Tonkin resolution

    gulf of Tonkin resolution
    President Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam
  • 2nd attack of the USS maddoc

    2nd attack of the USS maddoc
    this attack never happened but they thought it did
  • operation rolling thunder

    operation rolling thunder
    what rolling thunder was a a systematic bombing campaign against North Vietnam over 30,000 civilians died from the bombings
  • Arrival of U.S. troops.

    Arrival of U.S. troops.
    this is when troops arrived in Vietnam for the first time
  • battle of la drang

    battle of la drang
    La Drang was it was the first major engagement during the Vietnam war it was between the us army and the Army of vietnam
  • tet offensive

    tet offensive
    The Tet Offensive was a list of attacks staged by the north Vietnamese it was the early morning hours of January 31st 1968
  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre
    The my lai Massacre was a war crime committed by the us army and 504 people were killed. 500 unarmed in a small village named Son my village.
  • Operation Menu

    Operation Menu
    this lasted for 14 long months and this was the first round of bombing that the Us did to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
  • last Us troops leave vietnam

    last Us troops leave vietnam
    this was when us troops left Vietnam to go back to America they left south vietnam in 1973 7000 troops left South Vietnam
  • the end of the Vietnam war

    the end of the Vietnam war
    the end of the vietnam war was April 30th 1975 and that is when everyone stopped fight but some still stayed in vietnam