Vietnam War Timeline-{Alicia Ramirez}

By alicia5

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

    Gulf of Tonkin Incident
    The attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin caused Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder
    President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder.The goal of the operation was to discourage the Hanoi regime's direction and support of an insurgency that threatened to destroy the Republic of Vietnam.

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    Encompassing a combined assault of Viet Minh and North Vietnamese armies. Attacks are carried out in more than 100 cities and outposts across South Vietnam, including Hue and Saigon, and the U.S. Embassy is invaded.It shocked the American public into reality about the escalating conflict and led to President Johnson's decision not to seek re-election.

  • Massacre at Mai Lai

    Massacre at Mai Lai
    The U.S. massacre at Mai Lai, the US murdered more than 500 people

  • Draft

    Draft
    The U.S. government institutes the first draft lottery since World War II, drafting about 2.2 million young men.

  • Kent State Shooting

    Kent State Shooting
    National Guardsmen fire on anti-war demonstrators at Ohio’s Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine.

  • Pentagon Papers

    Pentagon Papers
    The New York Times publishes a series of articles detailing leaked Defense Department documents about the war, known as the Pentagon Papers.The Pentagon Papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks.

  • Easter Offensive

    Easter Offensive
    The offensive was designed to achieve a decisive victory, which even if it did not lead to the collapse of South Vietnam, would greatly improve the North's negotiating position at the Paris Peace Accords.The offensive isn’t the decisive blow its military leaders had hoped for.

  • Operation Linebacker

    Operation Linebacker
    President Nixon orders the launch of the most intense air offense of the war in Operation Linebacker. The attacks, concentrated between Hanoi and Haiphong, drop roughly 20,000 tons of bombs over densely populated regions.Operation Linebacker was the codename of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force.

  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords
    President Nixon signs the Paris Peace Accords, ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.