-
Period: to
US Involvment
This is the start and the end of the US involvment in vietman -
Truman sends aid against Japanese
trueman sends aid to bhelp fight against japan it was guns ammo and other supplies -
France regains control
FRance regains control of the war and fighting the vietmanese -
French Leave vietnam
The Point where the french left vietnam -
Kennedy Elected President
John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon for the presidency. -
Period: to
US groung troops enter vietnam
This is when US troops were first deployed in vietnam and also when we left vietnam -
Agent Orange Deployed
US Air Force begins using Agent Orange -- used to expose roads and trails used by Vietcong forces. -
President Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas
He got shot in the head while riding in a car during a presentation Vietnam fell squarely into the lap of his vice president, Lyndon Johnson. -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
On August 2, three North Vietnamese PT boats allegedly fire torpedoes at the USS Maddox, a destroyer located in the international waters of the Tonkin Gulf, some thirty miles off the coast of North Vietnam. The attack comes after six months of covert US and South Vietnamese naval operations. A second, even more highly disputed attack, is alleged to have taken place on August 4. -
Operation "Rolling Thunder" Deployed
When the US started doing a ton of air bombings this continued on for awhile -
US Troop Levels Top 200,000
This is when the troops in Vietnam went up to 200,000 -
B-52s Bomb North Vietnam
First b-52 bombings in north vietnam -
North Vietnamese Launch Tet Offensive
Tet is the vietmanese new year and North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces sweep down upon several key cities and provinces in South Vietnam, including its capital, Saigon. Within days, American forces turn back the onslaught and recapture most areas. Tet is a huge defeat for the Communists, but turns out to be a political and psychological victory. -
My Lai Massacre
We began killing people creating a total massacre even of citezens the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the village of My Lai. search and destroy -A short time later the killing began. When news of the atrocities surfaced, it sent shockwaves through the US political establishment, the military's chain of command, and an already divided American public. -
Richard Nixon Elected President
Running on a platform of "law and order," Richard Nixon barely beats Hubert Humphrey for the presidency. Nixon takes just 43.4 percent of the popular vote, compared to 42.7 percent for Humphrey. -
Policy of "Vietnamization" Announced
The objective of the policy is to shift the burden of defeating the Communists onto the South Vietnamese Army and away from the United States. Bassically taking vietmaneze soilders to help us -
Ho Chi Minh Dies at Age 79
-
News of My Lai Massacre Reaches US
The citeszens of america hear about the massacre and start to cause riots because it was murder -
Pentagon Papers Published
Pentagon papers published leaking news of nixon and how were not winning the war made everyone very upset considering we were told that we were winning -
Nixon Cuts Troop Levels by 70K
Because of everyone being lied to about the war nixon had to cut down the troops and send people home it was cut down by 70k troops -
Watergate break in
Forced nixon to resign 2 years later people think he planned it there was another robbery on June 17th Five men who were apprehended inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building during the second burglary implicated themselves on other counts and charges by voluntarily telling investigators about having committed a "first break-in". -
B-52s Bomb Hanoi and Haiphong
In an attempt to force North Vietnam to make concessions in the ongoing peace talks, the Nixon administration orders heavy bombing of supply dumps and petroleum storage sites in and around Hanoi and Haiphong. -
Last American Troops Leave Vietnam
This is when they brought all the troops out of vietnam to be back home the draft also stopped
