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Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech talking about how he didnt support the Vietnam war at all. He wanted the war to end and bring the troops back home for good.
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From January 30 to February 24, TET Offensive were attacks on all U.S. military bases and 110 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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Robert Kennedy is assassinated on June 4 while walking through a kitchen after winning the California and South Dakota primary elections. He was the brother of John F. Kennedy.
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On August 8 the Republican Party nominated Richard M. Nixon as its candidate for president.
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On September 2 Ho Chi Minh dies. He was the president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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The U.S. Senate voted to repeal the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which prohibited the administration to engage in warlike acts without Congressional approval.
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In June the New York Times published The Pentagon Papers, a top secret history of the Vietnam War dating back to 1945.
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On July 1 Congress bans any funds for combat in Southeast Asia after August 15. The US didn't want to pay for their wars any longer.
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In August Nixon resigns because of Watergate, and then gets replaced by Gerald Ford.But, Ford pardoned Nixon for “any and all” crimes he may have committed while being president.
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In The Geneva Conference of 1954, Sir James Cable, a diplomat, described SEATO as "a fig leaf for the nakedness of American policy", Then, after many long disscussions about the act, it was finally dissolved.
