Vietnam War Timeline Irene Mendoza

By IreneMendozaa

  • 1945

    1945
    Ho Chi Mihn declares independence of Vietnam

  • 1954

    1954
    Vietnam is split into North and south

  • 1955

    US begins sending aid to south Vietnam

  • 1956

    1956
    French leave Vietnam

  • 1963

    1963
    Johnson becomes US president

  • 1965

    1965
    US soldiers in Vietnam and US planes begin to bomb NORTH VIETNAM

  • 1968

    1968
    More than half a million US soldiers reported to be in combat in Vietnam

  • 1969

    1969
    Under public pressure president Nixon began withdrawing US troops from Vietnam!

  • 1973

    1973
    The last US troops left Vietnam with 58,000 American dead

  • 1995

    1995
    The United States stabilizes relations with Vietnam