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Ho Chi Minh .
Ho Chi Minh creates the provisional government called the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam after Japan surrenders to all the allied forces. The Vietnmin now has power in Vietnam. -
Ho Chi Minh declares independence
Independence declared. The British try to give the power to the French. -
The French pull out of Vietnam War.
After the defeat they had at Dien Bien Phu, the French decided it was time to pull out of Vietnam. During the year of 1954, at the Geneva Conference, a group of nations joined together to dicuss how the French could peacefully withdraw from Vietnam. -
Geneva confrence begins
Vietnam is divided at the 17th parallel. North of this line, Vietnam is controlled by the communist Vietminh and Ho Chi Minh. South of this line is governed by Ngo Dinh Diem and the State of Vietnam. The United States never actually agreed to this. -
Golf of the Tonkin Incident
On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron.A sea battle resulted, in which the Maddox expended over two hundred eighty 3-inch and 5-inch shells, and in which four USN F-8 Crusader jet fighter bombers strafed the torpedo boats. -
Battle of the Ia Drang Valley
The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People's Army of Vietnam of the North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two part battle took place between November 14 and November 18 , 1965 , at two landing zones northwest of Plei Me in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam as part of the U.S. airmobile offensive codenamed Operation Silver Bayonet. -
Tet offensive
Veit Cong troops infrirate the city of Saigon that took nearly 2 weeks to compelety rout out the Viet Cong troops. The attack is a military disater for thr Communists , they lost over 10,000 men and did not hold thei objectives. -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of Charlie Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Most of the victims were women, children, infants, and elderly people. Some of the bodies were later found to be mutilate. -
Battle of Khe Sanh
They got a message from the PAVN , the soliders of the Route 9 saying Khe Sanh " our victory at Khe Sanh". It was the first time the americanss abandoned a major combat base , it was cear that they gor defeated and see who won. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state.
