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The Vietnamese defeats the French
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The US sends military forces to Vietnam
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South Vietnamese troops attck two North Vietnamese islands in the gulf of Tonkin
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US offer economic aid in trade for peace but North Vietnam, but this offer was shortly rejected.
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2,500 Vietcong troops attack Song Be, a South Vietnamese capital
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US soldiers kill about two hundred My Lai civilians
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Richard M. Nixon becomes the new president of the US
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Vietnam and the United States talk of peace resume in paris, but breakdown about a year later
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All parties of the Vietnam war sign a cease fire agreemment
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THe war was about 15 years long with nearly one million NVA and Vietcong troops and a quarter of a million South Vietnamese soldiers have died. Also, hundreds of thousands of civilians were killied during this war.
