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Domino Theory coined
The first public mention of it was made by US president Dwight Eisenhower in a speech where he explained why America would aid the French in their struggle against communists in Indochina broader considerations that might follow what you would call the 'falling domino' principle. -
Geneva Accords
the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam. Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, pending elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country.intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War, was a conference involving several nations that took place in Geneva. -
Assassination of Diem
He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and then served as President of South Vietnam from 1955 until he was captured and assassinated during the 1963 military coup.Minh's army colleagues and US officials in Saigon agreed that Minh ordered the executions. They postulated various motives, including that the brothers had embarrassed Minh by fleeing the Gia Long Palace, and that the brothers were killed to prevent a later political comeback. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
LBJ ordered 1st troops to Vietnam
Those 3,500 soldiers were the first combat troops the United States had dispatched to South Vietnam to support the Saigon government in its effort to defeat an increasingly lethal Communist insurgency. -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai.The My Lai Massacre intensified anti-war sentiments in the United States. Some Americans had already been demanding an end to the Vietnam War, more and more people began to believe that American troops should be withdrawn from Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam -
Nixon’s Vietnamization policy
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 Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops. -
Hard Hat Riot
The students were protesting the Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War, following the announcement by President Richard Nixon of the U.S. invasion of neutral Cambodia. leading into a huge brawl. -
Kent State shooting
students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. When the Guardsmen shot and killed four students on May 4, the Kent State Shootings became the focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. -
Nixon sends troops into Cambodia
He announced his decision to launch American forces into Cambodia with the special objective of capturing the headquarters of the entire communist military operation in South Vietnam.American ground forces in Cambodia to fight alongside South Vietnamese troops attacking communist bases there -
Nixon’s Christmas bombing
The bombing brought no concessions from the enemy, nor was it intended to; its purpose was to persuade the South Vietnamese to go along with an armistice to which they were violently opposed. the bombings forced the North Vietnamese back to the negotiating table. -
War Powers Act
a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States congressional joint resolution.it was created to limit the power of the president after the Vietnam war. -
Paris Peace Accords
the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam was a peace treaty to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Saigon Falls
was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong.effectively ending the Vietnam War. In the days before, U.S. forces evacuated thousands of Americans and South Vietnamese.