-
United States becomes actively involved
The United States back up the South Vietnam with armed forces -
Dien Bien Phu
Vietnamese army and forces take over the French posts at Dien Bien Phu and the French are force to stop fire. -
Period: to
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Group 559 makes a route along the border of Cambodia and Vietnam and shoot offshots all along the border -
Operation Rangeland
To reduce the bushes and vegetation along the highways to make sure the vietcong cannot hide themselves. -
Gulf of Tonkin Attack
The U.S.S. is reportedly fired on and the commander of the ship requests an attack on North Vietnam as revenge. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
President Johnson gains full control on the actions needed to protect South Vietnam -
Rolling Thunder Begins
President Johnson sets up a long lasting bombing offense in attempt to have North Vietnam to stop helping the Vietcong -
Rolling Thunder Takes Place
Many delays stopped Operation Rolling Thunder, but finally the first Rolling Thunder takes off -
US offers peace for economic aid proposal
The US offers peace but it gets rejected -
President Johnson commits over 60,000 troops to Vietnam
After the Peace proposal was denied we sent 60,000 troops to Vietnam -
First major battle of Vietnam War for American Units
General William Westmoreland commands his troops to enter the NLF territory just northwest of Saigon -
Operation Junction City
One of the largest air assults, about 240 helicopters swept over Tay Ninh province. This was to fight against the Vietcong military by destroying the bases and the headquarters -
Period: to
Tet Offensive
The DRV and the NLF attacked the major cities in the south -
Period: to
Khe Sanh attacked by Vietcong
Khe Sanh is suprised attacked by a barrage of missiles and explosions over a span of 77 days -
My Lai massacre
U.S. Charlie Company killed two hundred citizens and one member is found guilty of war crimes -
Nixon takes Office
Takes office during Vietnam and promises Peace with Honor -
Operation Menu
President Nixon allows bombing on North Vietnamese and Vietcong bases in Cambodia -
All but 133,000 US troops have come home
The ground war is the responsibility of South Vietnam which have 1,000,000 men in the armed forces. -
Peace talks break down
North Vietnam and America meet in Paris to discuss peace -
Peace talks resume
After more battling America and North Vietnam sit down in Paris to resume peace talks -
Cease fire signed
All Vietnam warring parties sign a cease fire -
Nixon Resigns
This leaves South Vietnam without its strongest advocate -
Last casualties for the US and final evacuation
Two marines are killed in a rocket attack at 4:03 am. Later on the rest of the marines leave the embassy. The war finally ends