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5follettvietnam

By tylerfollett

  • 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.
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    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
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    Tet Offensive

    The DRV and the NLF attacked the major cities in the south
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    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