Vietnam war timeline

  • Domino Coin

    Domino Coin
    Harry S. Truman proposed this to justify sending troops to Greece and turkey. This was a thing because they assumed that Vietnam was going to go, communist, because of Russia.
  • Geneva Accords

    Geneva Accords
    This conference was able to convince the French to take their troops out of north Vietnam.
  • Assassination of Diem

    Assassination of Diem
    This was the final prime minister of Vietnam and then was the president of south Vietnam in 1955 until he was captured in 1963 and killed.
  • Gulf Of Tonkin Revolution

    Gulf Of Tonkin Revolution
    Gave the President the right to intervene when he thought was right.
  • LBJ first troops to Vietnam

    LBJ first troops to Vietnam
    LBJ sent 3,500 soldiers to south Vietnam to defeat the north.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    Historians estimate as many as 50,000 communist troops died in the effort to gain control of the southern part of Vietnam
  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre
    The My Lai massacre was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by United States troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam
  • Nixon's Vietnamization policy

    Nixon's Vietnamization policy
    administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces
  • Nixon sends troops to Cambodia

    Nixon sends troops to Cambodia
    Nixon sent troops to Cambodia in hopes of cutting off supplies and ties to the U.S enemies which officially started the invasion
  • Kenn State Shooting

    Kenn State Shooting
    The National Guard was there from a strike in Kenn state and a protester threw a rock at a guard they shot and killed 4 students and wounded 9 other unarmed victims.
  • Hard Hat Riot

    Hard Hat Riot
    400 construction workers and 800 office workers attacked 1,000 demonstraters affiliated with the Kenn state shooting.
  • Nixon's Christmas bombing

    Nixon's Christmas bombing
    The bombing in Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords
    This ceased fire throughout Vietnam. Also, the U.S. agreed to pull all their troops out and dismantle their bases and North Vietnam agreed to release all prisoners.
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act
    check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress
  • Saigon Falls

    Saigon Falls
    This was the ending of Saigon as the south Vietnamese government fell and U.S. troops had to retreat.