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Vietnam War Timeline

By Melvin Watson

  • "The Secret War"

    "The Secret War"
    The Laotian Civil War was fought between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government. With both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers.

  • Dien Bien Phu

    Dien Bien Phu
    The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the decisive engagement in the first Indochina War. After French forces occupied the Dien Bien Phu valley in late 1953,

  • Geneva Conference

    Was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland. Whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    Authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate. To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder
    Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign. Conducted by the US 2nd Air Division, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

    Gulf of Tonkin Incident
    The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident. Involved what were originally claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. By forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces .

  • My Lai Massacare

    My Lai Massacare
    A unit of the American Division's 11th Infantry Brigade arrived in the hamlet of My Lai in the northern part of South Vietnam.They were on a “search and destroy” mission to root out 48th Viet Cong Battalion thought to be in the area.

  • Kent State University Massacre

    Kent State University Massacre
    The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Killings of protesting students at Kent State and Jackson State,

  • Pentagon Papers

    Pentagon Papers
    The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military. Prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967.

  • Last US troops withdraw from South Vietnam

    Last US troops withdraw from South Vietnam
    The last American troops left South Vietnam today, leaving behind an unfinished war that has deeply scarred this country. Soldiers was marrying Vietnam women to come to the US.

  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act
    Is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States. To an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.