Vietnam War Timeline

By Elliot W

  • Vietnam declared Independence

    Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam an Independent Nation in Hanoi.

  • Fall of Dien Bien Phu

    The Vietnamese overtake the French outpost of Dien Bien Phu.
  • Period: to

    Geneva Accords

    The countries of France, Great Britain, the
    Soviet Union, the United States, China, Laos, and Cambodia met in Geneva,
    Switzerland, with the Vietminh and with South Vietnam’s anticommunist
    nationalists to hammer out a peace agreement.

  • SDS created

    The Students for a Democratic Society was created by Tom Haden.

  • Kent State Massacre

    Students protesting the war were killed.

  • Kennedy Elected President

    John F. Kennedy was marginally elected president.

  • Monks Protest by Fire

    Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire in protest of the South Vietnamese government for religious intolerance and discriminatory policies.

  • Gulf Tonkin Resolution

    The US created the Gulf Tonkin Resolution in response to Vietnamese attacks on US ships.

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    President Johnson unleashes the first bombing on Northern Vietnam.

  • My Lai

    Americans Massacred civilians

  • Vietnamization

    Troops start to leave Vietnam

  • Vietnam Ends

    The war officially ends.