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The Beginning of Conflict
The Vietnam War was a very long war. This war was a costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies.The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Eisenhower cites the Domino Theory
President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a "Domino Theory" in Southeast Asia. The so-called "Domino Theory" dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the years to come. -
Indochina War
Abuses perpetrated against the North Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian people, which began as far back as the French occupation in the 1840s. Made many to fight a 30-year battle for their freedom from foreign occupation. The United States involvement in the struggles of French Indochina began in 1945 at the Potsdam Conference and continued through many phases, in a final withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Billions of dollars spent in military aid and equipment from the -
Campign of terror against villages controlled by Diem
In South Vietnam, the people started to dislike the government. The president, Diem, angered many South Vietnamese. He would put a lot of the in prison. Diem’s actions scared the U.S. government, and they thought that Diem’s actions were done for support of the Vietcong. In August 1963, Diem ordered a thorough crackdown against all of his enemies, so Kennedy withdrew his support for Diem. In November 1963. -
Vietcong Formed
North Vietnam announces the formation of the National for the liberation of the South at the conference held “somewhere in the South” this organization, more commonly known as the National Liberation Front (NLF), The NLF was made to replicate the win of the Viet Minh, the Umbrella Nationalist Organization that successfully liberated Vietnam from French colonial rule. -
U.S. Military begins to use Agent Orange
Agent Orange was a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam war to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, as well as crops that might be used to them. Agent Orange, which contained the chemical dioxin, was the most commonly used. It was later seen to cause serious health issues – such as tumors, birth defects, rashes, psychological symptoms and cancer. -
Gulf Of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August 7, 1964) gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. During 1964, military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North. President Johnson and his advisers feared that the public would not support an expansion of the war. -
U.S. Arial Bombing - Operation Rolling Thunder
During the Vietnam War, as part of the bombing campaign know as the operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This huge bombing was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S. supported government of South Vietnam. Operation Rolling thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and thus represented -
First U.S. ground troops sent to Vietnam
In response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, president Johnson , per the authority given to him by Congress in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet offensive. A coordinate series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the Communist people’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), planned the offensive in an attempt both to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the united Sates to scale back its support of the Saigon regime. North Vietnamese achieved a strategic victory with the Tet Offensive. -
policy of Vietnamization Announced
President Nixon introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. The increasingly unpopular war had created deep divisions in American society. Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam’s military strength in order to facilitate a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops, would prepare the South Vietnamese to take responsibility for t -
Kent State incident
Kent May 4 Center, based in Kent, Ohio, is the leading national & international organization seeking truth & justice regarding the "Kent State massacre of May 4, 1970. Four students were killed and nine students were wounded when the Ohio National Guard fired 67 gunshots at 12:24pm during an anti-war confrontation on the Kent State University campus. " -
Watergate Scandal
Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The DNC is located in the Watergate building in Washington D.C. This robbery wasn’t just any robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. He took steps to cover it up afterwards, raising “hush money” for the burglars, trying to stop the Federal B -
U.S. Troops withdrawn from Vietnam
The 814 soldiers were the first of 25,000 troops that were withdrawn in the first stage of the U.S. disengagement from the war. There would be 14 more increments in the withdrawal, but the last U.S. troops did not leave until after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973.
