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U.S. joins the war.
The USS Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boat. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It authorized the president to take all necessary measures, including the use of armed force against any aggressor in the conflict. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
American bombing campaign during Vietnam war, the targets were in Northern Vietnam. -
Norman Morrison
A 31-year-old pacifist Quaker from Baltimore, sets himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam war. Onlookers encourage him to release his 11-month-old baby daughter, whom he is holding, before he is engulfed in flames. -
Battle of Dak To
U.S. and South Vietnamese forces resist an offensive by communist forces in the Central Highlands. The United States forces suffer some 1,800 casualties. -
77 Days
A U.S. marine garrison at Khe Sanh in south vietnam is bombarded with massive artillery by communist forces of north vietnam -
The Death of Ho Chi Minh
Ho CHi Minh dies from a heart attack -
Cambodian Incursion
U.S. and South Vietnamese forces attack communist bases across the Cambodian border in the Cambodian Incursion -
The Kent State Shooting
in a bloody incident known as the Kent State Shooting, National Guardsmen fire on anti-war demonstrators at Ohio’s Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine. -
The End
North and South Vietnam are formally unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under hard line communist rule........
