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Vietnam War

By serranj21
  • China leads to Communism

    China leads to Communism

    Communists led by Mao Zedong had taken power in China.
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Eisenhower sends troops to Vietnam to fight Communists.

    Eisenhower sends troops to Vietnam to fight Communists.

  • JFK took office.

    JFK took office.

  • Assassination of JFK.

    Assassination of JFK.

    Number of American military advisers in Vietnam increased from 700 to 16,000.
  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin

    Two North Vietnamese gun boats attacked an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • First Mass Demonstration

    First Mass Demonstration

    20,000 people in Washington
  • Military Intervention

    Military Intervention

    Walt Rostow: "I see the light at the end of the tunnel."
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    Launched by North Vietnam and Vietcong
  • "Vietnamization"

    "Vietnamization"

  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords

    Called for an end to the fighting and for all foreign troops to be withdrawn from Vietnam.
  • War Fought on T.V.

    War Fought on T.V.

    Marshall McLuhan: "Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
  • The Fall of Saigon

    The Fall of Saigon

    end of war.
  • Free-Market Reforms

    Free-Market Reforms

    "doi moi" less state control of the economy and more private enterprises.
  • Bill Clinton lifted the U.S. trade embargo

    Bill Clinton lifted the U.S. trade embargo

  • Diplomatic relations are restored.

    Diplomatic relations are restored.

    foreign investors poured into Vietnam and its economy has boomed.