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Vietnam War

  • War broke out

    War broke out
    A vietnamese man Ho Chi Minh started organzing arnies against their french rulers. On this day war began between the French and viet Minh.
  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    Battle of Dien Bien Phu
    The French suffer a decisive defeat.
  • Geneva Accords

    Geneva Accords
    The Geneva Accords created a cease-fire for peaceful withdraw of the French.
  • Help from U.S

    Help from U.S
    President Harry S. Truman decided to help France because, at the time the U.S was in the Cold war with communist countries, and Ho Chi Minh being a communist, worried truman.
  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin
    Turning point of the war. North Vietnamise attack two U>S destroyers sitting in international waters.
  • Aerial Bombing

    Aerial Bombing
    Sustained u.S aerial bombing campagn of North Vietnam begins.
  • Mai Lai

    Mai Lai
    U.S soldiers kill hundreds of vietnamese civilians in the Vietnamese town of Mai Lai.
  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords
    Are signed and provide a cease-fire with the U.S.