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Vietnamese troops take the French command post after a battle lasting nearly two months. There are many more Vietnamese casualties than French during this period of time, but it is a victory nonetheless.
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President Kennedy sends new equipment to the South Vietnamese government, as well as a few thousand military personnel, to help in their conflict with the Viet Cong.
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US Army helicopters transport 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers to Saigon. This event is significant in that it marks America's first real involvement against the Viet Cong on Vietnamese soil.
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The Viet Cong guerrillas make a stand against the South Vietnamese 7th Division (aided significantly by the American Army), marking the first real battle between the Americans and the Viet Cong.
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President Johnson signs Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gives the United States freedom to do whatever necessary to defend the South Vietnamese in the conflict.
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The Viet Cong attack an American helicopter base in South Vietnam, prompting President Johnson to order US Navy fire-bombers to take North Vietnamese military targets in retaliation.
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Sanctioned by President Johnson as an offensive bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese in order to stop their support of the Viet Cong guerrillas.
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Involved the deployment of 8,000 US troops into Saigon to capture the Viet Cong's headquarters; although it is the largest American operation in the Vietnam conflict, it is a fail mission--no headquarters were found
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5,000 US troops search the areas surrounding Saigon in order to locate the presence of the Viet Cong, with no success.
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American soldiers move to extract Viet Cong forces from a region named the Iron Triangle, an area bordered by the Saigon River and Route 13. At the end of the mission, large quantities of enemy supplies are taken and several hundred Viet Cong have been killed.
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One of the largest air-mobile assaults in history, Operation Junction City was tasked with the mission of destroying Viet Cong military bases in South Vietnam.
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President Richard M. Nixon orders that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong bases in Cambodia are to be bombed. In the space of four years, over 500,000 tons of bombs are dropped in Cambodia by US forces.
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US President Richard Nixon met with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, ending with an agreement that the US would withdraw 25,000 US troops from the region.
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Peace talks convene in Paris between US and North Vietnamese officials. They break down, however, and do not reconvene until January 8th, 1973.
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The opposing forces fighting in the Vietnam War sign a cease-fire, marking the beginning of the end of the war.
