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US begins to arrive in vietnam
U.S begins sending advisors to south vietnam to help them fight the communistic north vietnam. We thought that if we send over our military, not only could we just help south vietnam, but help rid the world of communism. -
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vietnam war
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first american deaths
Two military advisors are killed by Viet Minh guerilla soldiers in a raid at Bien Hoa in South Vietnam. These are the first American deaths (non-combat) reported in Vietnam. -
buddhist monks set themselves on fire
to protest diem, monks burn themselves in the streets -
diem is assasinated
diemm gets assasinated -
gulf of tonkin incident
The destroyer USS maddox reported being under attack by three north vietnamese torpedo boats. Four north vietnamese sailor were killed, six more injured. there were no us casualties.. This probably gave us confidence knowing that we were under attack, didnt lose and of our people annd killed some of the enemies. -
operation rollin thunder
19 south vietnam aircrafts hit targets in southern vietnam, its the largest air raid on vietnam in us history -
my lai massacre
Gis came into town as people were gathering for market and they started unloading machine guns onto the crowd -
invasion of laos
we had executed more airstrikes, killed more people -
operation linebacker
"Unlike the Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Linebacker interdiction operations, Linebacker II, would be a "maximum effort" bombing campaign to "destroy major target complexes in the Hanoi and Haiphong areas which could only be accomplished by B-52s" -
vietnam war ends
america getsw out of vietnam and the war is over
