vietnam war

By 21AEspinoza

  • Selective Service Act

    the government drafted more than 1.5 million men into the military service during Vietnam War.

  • French surrendered in vietnam

    After suffering 15,000 casualties the French surrendered.

  • National Liberation Front

    A communist rebel group in the South,know as the National Liberation Front, had committed themselves to undermining the Diem government and uniting Vietnam under a communist flag.

  • Diem was remove from power

    Diem was removed from power and later assassinated

  • North vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the American destroyer USS Maddox

    The Maddox was not hit, and it returned fire on the North Vietnamese boat.

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    U.S. airstrikes hammered North Vietnam and Vietcong strong points in South Vietnam.

  • President Johnson dramatically altered the U.S. role in Vietnam War

    In response to

  • U.S Marines arrived to defend the airbase in Da Nang

  • President Johnson brought General Westmoreland home from Vietnam to address the nation's concerns about the war.

    Westmoreland said that the Vietcong were declining in strength and could no longer mount a major offensive.

  • American soldiers kill civilians at My Lai

    Lieutenant William Calley's unit began shooting and killing unarmed civilians because they thought vietcong soldiers were in My Lai.

  • The president addressed the nation on television

    The president announced on television that America will limit the bombing on north Vietnam and seek a negotiated settlement to the war.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

    A racist assassin shot and killed him in Memphis, Tennessee

  • Robert kennedy is assassinated

    At a rally celebrating his victory in the California primary a minute later a Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan shot kennedy in the head.

  • anti war rally in downtown New York City

    war demonstrators had spit on the American flag, they pushed into the crowd and started hitting protesters.

  • United States and North Vietnam came to terms on a peace settlement.

    North Vietnam refused to sigh the agreenment and America bomb North Vietnam to resume negotiations.

  • The United States,South Vietnam,North Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed the Paris Peace Accords

    The parties agreed to a cease fire and a U.S. troop withdrawal from South Vietnam.