1wahlvietnam

By i_love_bacon

  • Dien Bien Phu

    A remote mountain top in the north west corner of Vietnam, the Vietnamese defeat the French

  • Creation of the Ho Chi Minh trail

    Construction begins on a network of roads for the Vietcong and the NVA to use against the Americans and the French, near Laos and Cambodia

  • United States becomes actively involved

    Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President and increases US involvement by sending in soldiers

  • Operation Ranch Hand

    US begins spraying vegitaion in Vietnam with Agent Orange to kill off life, making it harder to get ambushed in the thick jungle

  • Gulf of Tonkin Attack

    DRV lanuches attack on two American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, the second attack never happened

  • Gulf of Tonkin resolution

    Congress grants President Johnson with broad war powers

  • Rolling Thunder Begins

    Bombing missions that lasted four years over North Vietnam

  • US offers peace for economic aid proposal

    The US offers peace for economic aid proposal to North Vietanam, but gets rejected

  • President Johnson commits 60,000 troops to Vietnam

    LBJ commits 60,000 troops to Vietnam, the Austrailians and the Koreans also join

  • First Major Battle of Vietnam War for American Units

    The First major battle for American units at Chu Lai base, this is also a victory

  • Operation Junction City

    247 helicopters fly over Tay Ninh Province, the largest air assault in history

  • Khe Sanh attacked by Vietcong

    18 marines are killed and 40 wounded

  • Tet Offensive

    DRV launches attacks against major southern cities, designed to get LBJ to the bargaining table

  • My Lai massacre

    US kills 200 civilians and one member of the units is tried and found guilty. Armys begins to question their orders.

  • Nixon Takes Office

    Nixon takes office with aims to negotiate troops being sent home

  • Operation Menu

    Bombing of North Vietnamese and Vietcong bases

  • All But 133,000 US troops have been sent home

    two thirds of the US army stationed in Vietnam have been sent home in two years

  • Peace Talks Break Down

    Peace talks between the US and North Vietman break down in Paris

  • Peace talks resume

    Peace between the US and North Vietnam resume in Paris

  • Cease fire signed

    all warring parties sign

  • Nixon Resigns

    Nixon resigns leaving South Vietnam without its strongest advocate

  • Last Casualties for the US and Final Evacuation

    at 4:03 am, two US marines are killed at Saigon's Tan Son Nuht airport, at dawn the last marines lift off