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Defeating the French
Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh forces defeat the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, effectively ending the 7 ½-year Indochina War.
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Eisenhower explains his"domino theory
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Geneva Accords signed
Geneva Accords, collection of documents relating to Indochina and issuing from the Geneva Conference of April 26–July 21, 1954,The 10 documents—none of which were treaties binding the participants—consisted of 3 military agreements, 6 unilateral declarations. -
Divided Vietnam
At a conference in Geneva, world powers agree to a divided Vietnam.
Communists, led by Ho Chi Minh, control the North. The United States eventually supports an anticommunist government led by Ngo Dinh Diem in the South.
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President Diem is murdered
President Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu are murdered during a coup by dissident generals of the South Vietnamese army.
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battles against the North Vietnamese
In the Ia Drang Valley, American troops fight their first large scale battles against the North Vietnamese Army.
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My Lai Massacre
Over the course of four hours, American soldiers kill more than 500 unarmed civilians in and around the hamlet of My Lai.
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Nixon try to end the war
Nixon is elected president, promising to end the war in Vietnam.
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Students got shot
Four days after Nixon announced the expansion of the war into Cambodia, four students at Kent State are shot by National Guardsmen during a protest.
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Launch operation Lam Son
The South Vietnamese launch operation Lam Son 719 against North Vietnamese forces in Laos, which ends in their hasty retreat and defeat.
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US leaving
Last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam.
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North Vietnamese tank
A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon on April 30/1975
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Ho Chi Minh City
The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north.
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Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial
Opening of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 2-acre (8,000 m²) U.S. national memorial in Washington D.C. It honors service members of the U.S. armed
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President Clinton
Under President Bill Clinton, the U.S. normalizes relations with Vietnam.
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