Vietnam War

By nathaniekl411

  • First Indochina War

    A war against the French colonist rule

  • Allies supply weapons for the war

    China provides the Viet Minh with military advisors and weapons while the US pledges $15 million in military aid to france

  • Peace in Vietnam

    Divides Vietnam on the 17th parallel

  • Insurgency in South Vietnam

    Communist guerillas begin a insurgency in South Vietnam assassinating over 400 South Vietnamese officials

  • Monk Protests

    Diem Silenced monks and they begin to protest by setting themselves on fire in public places, and was overthrown and executed

  • North Vietnam bombing

    Begins to bomb North Vietnam, and continued for 3 years

  • Troops arriving

    The first US combat Troops arrive, and by the year's end over 200,000 are dead

  • Operation Cedar Falls

    Robert McNamara says that the bombing campaign was ineffective. So now the U.S. launches a ground war effort of both U.S. and Vietnamese troops to destroy Vietcong operations near Saigon.

  • The "Tet Offensive"

    North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces launch an attack on one hundred South Vietnamese cities and towns. Within just a few days U.S. forces recapture most areas.The "Tet Offensive" is a military defeat for Communists, but a political victory, as Americans begin questioning the U.S. military's conduct of the war.