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Vietnam War

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  • Pentagon Papers

    Pentagon Papers
    Was a name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945-1967 prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNarama in 1967

  • Dien Bien Phu

    Dien Bien Phu
    was the climactic confrontation of the first Indochina War between the French Union's French far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist- nationalist revolutionaries

  • Geneva Conference

    Geneva Conference
    Was a Conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland whose purpose to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina

  • The Secret War

    The Secret War
    Was a fight between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government with both sides receiving heavy external support

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

    Gulf of Tonkin Incident
    involved what originally claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and The United States and known as the USS Maddox Incident

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the Maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia

  • Operation Rolling Thunders

    Operation Rolling Thunders
    Was the Title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by The US 2nd Air Division

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    One of the largest Military campaigns of the Vietnam war launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese people's army of Vietnam against the forces

  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre
    Soldiers of Charlies Company unit of American Division 11th infantry arrived in the Hamlet of My Lai, they were on a search and destroy mission to root out 48th VietCong Battalion thought to be in the area

  • Kent State University Massacre

    Kent State University Massacre
    Involved shootings of unarmed students by the Ohio National Guards

  • Last US troops withdraw from South Vietnam

    Last US troops withdraw from South Vietnam
    Two months after signing the Peace agreement , the Last US combat troops Leave South Vietnam as hanoi Frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam

  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act
    is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of The U.S. Congress