Timeline of John G. Abbott

Renouncing Left wings beliefs

Mar 12, 1947

HUAC forced hundreds of people who worked in the movie industry to renounce left-wing political beliefs and testify against one another.

John F. Kennedy sends helicopters

1961

John F. Kennedy sent helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorized secret operations against Viet Vong

Sprays Agent Orange

Jan 18, 1962

U.S. aircraft start spraying Agent Orange and other herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam to kill vegetation that would offer cover and food

Assissination of Kennedy

Nov 22, 1963

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas

USS Maddox is attacked

Aug 2, 1964

USS Maddox is attacked by North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Golf of Tulkin.

Halt of the bombing

Mar 31, 1968

President Johnson halts bombing in Vietnam north of the 20th parallel. Facing backlash about the war, he also announces he will not run for reelection.

Operation Menu

May 26, 1970

Series of secret bombings known as “Operation Menu”, B-52 bombers target suspected communist base camps and supply zones in Cambodia

Invasion of Laos

Mar 25, 1971

ARVN troops, with U.S. support, invaded Laos in an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Americans lose their lives

Apr 30, 1975

58,220 Americans lose their lives. 1.1 Million Vietnamise and Viet Cong fighters were also killed.

Canceling Iraq's war debts

Jan 16, 1991

The Gulf state's refusal to cancel Iraq’s war debts contributed to Saddam Hussein’s decision to make threats against Iraq’s rich, but militarily weak.