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Vietnam War

By ArianaMia

  • Late 1940's

    Late 1940's
    The French want to re-establish themselves.
    U.S. bank rolls French war effort, making Ho one of our prime enemies.

  • 1940

    1940
    Japan takes over Vietnam. American soldiers fight aside Ho Chi Minh.

  • 1945

    1945
    Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnamese independence.

  • 1954

    1954
    Indo China is divided into North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

  • 1950's

    1950's
    U.S. becomes primary allie of South Vietnamese state.

  • 1960

    1960
    John F. Kennedy is elected president.
    Major escalation of U.S. forces in South East Asia, moving America closer to Vietnam war.

  • November 1963

    November 1963
    President John F. Kennedy is assasinated.

  • Late 1963

    Late 1963
    Lyndon B. Johnson takes office. He escalates the Vietnam War.

  • August 1964

    August 1964
    LBJ over simplified a small attack on U.S. forces and gets the vote from congress to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

  • 1965

    1965
    Over 80,000 U.S. ccombat troops are in South Vietnam

  • 1968

    1968
    Enemies use tet new year to launch suprise attack on U.S. and South Vietnamese forces.

  • 1968-1969

    1968-1969
    Presidential election. Richad Nixon becomes 37th president.

  • 1970-1971

    1970-1971
    Invasion of Cambodia in 1970 and the leak of pentagon papers in 1971 made war in Vietnam more and more unpopular among American people.

  • 1973

    1973
    Paris Peace Accords were signed to restore peace and end direct U.S. military involvment in Vietnam.

  • 1975

    1975
    Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam decided to liberate South Vietnam.