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Vietnam defeat French at Dien Bien phu
Ho Chi Minh’s Viet forces defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold trapped by the Vietnamese communists for 57 days. The victory at Dien Bien Phu signaled the end of French colonial influence in Indochina and cleared the way for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel. -
Geneva Accords
Arranged a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War. The agreement was reached at the end of the Geneva Conference. A ceasefire was signed and France agreed to withdraw its troops from the region. -
Introduction of b-52 Bomber
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force since the 1950s. The bomber is capable of carrying up to 70,000 pounds of weapons, range of more than 8,800 miles -
Buddhists protest of diem
Buddhists protest of diem was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963. Characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led mainly by Buddhist monks. -
Diem overthrown and assassinated
Following the overthrow of his government by South Vietnamese military forces the day before, President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers.The death of Diem caused celebration among many people in South Vietnam, but also lead to political chaos in the nation. -
JFk assassinated Johnson take office
JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. After he died LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, -
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. -
Golf of Tonkin Resolution
Was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by the United States Congress gives Lyndon B. Johnson a free hand to protect American forces in Vietnam, the pretext for deepening the US military commitment. -
Re-election of President Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson had come to office less than a year earlier following the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy. Johnson, who had successfully associated himself with Kennedy's popularity, won 61.1% of the popular vote, the highest won by a candidate. -
First teach in
The first “teach-in” is conducted at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; two hundred faculty members participate by holding special anti-war seminars. Regular classes were canceled, and rallies and speeches dominated for 12 hours. -
Tet offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
My Lai
In one of the most horrific incidents of violence against civilians during the Vietnam War, a company of American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. -
President Johnson doesn't want re-election
After being elected in 1964 Johnson decides to not re-elect let someone else take control. -
Nixon elected
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. -
Policy of vietnamization
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role -
Woodstock
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival attracting an audience of over 400,000 people, scheduled over three days on a dairy farm in New York state from August 15 to 17, 1969, but which ran over four days to August 18, 1969. -
First draft lottery
United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. -
Kent state killings
The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard -
Invasion on Cambodia
Was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)(NRA) during the Vietnam War. -
Peace agreement Vietnam/American withdraw
intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War. It ended direct U.S. military combat, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. -
Cambodia falls to communisum
Between 1970 and 1975, Lon Nol and his army, the Forces Armees Nationale Khmer, with U.S. support and military aid, battled the communist Khmer Rouge for control of Cambodia. -
Saigon Falls
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, depending on context,[1][2] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam -
Vietnam veterans memorial dedicated
Near the end of a week long national salute to Americans who served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington after a march to its site by thousands of veterans of the conflict. 57,939 Americans who died in the conflict, arranged in order of death, not rank, as was common in other memorials.
