Vietnam war events

Ho Chi Minh

Sep 2, 1945

In northern city of Hanoi, Ho declared Vietnam an independent nation.

France

Dec 3, 1945

French troops back in Vietnam by the end of 1945. Regaining control of cities and southern half of the country.

Geneva Accords

May 4, 1954

France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, Laos, and Cambodia met in Geneva, Switzerland, with the Vietminh and with South Vietnam’s anticommunist nationalists to hammer out a peace agreement. Divide Vietnam on 17th parallel.

Ho Chi Minh trail

May 4, 1959

Supplying arm to Vietcong by network of pathways along borders of Vietnam, Laos , and Cambodia

JFK

Nov 8, 1960

john F Kennedy is elected president

U.S military

Nov 1, 1963

U.S supported military coup toppled diems regime. Against kennedys wishes, Diem was assassinated.

USS Maddox

Aug 2, 1964

A north Vietnamese patrol boat fired torpedo at an American destroyer. USS was patrolling gulf of Tonkin, fire missed but Maddox returned fire leaving the patrol boat in great damge.

LBJ

Nov 3, 1964

Lyndon B Johnson is elected president.

MLK Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights leader assassinated.

Kennedy

Jun 4, 1968

Robert Kennedy wins Crucial California primary , yet was assassinated right after midnight.

Nixon

Apr 30, 1970

Announced us troops had invade Cambodia to clear north Vietnamese and Vietcong supply centers.

Violence

May 4, 1970

national guard open fire 9 wounded 4 killed in campus protest.