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  • Dien Bien Phu

    The battle culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva

  • Creation of Ho Chi Minh Trail

    The trail was a logistical system that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam to provide support, in the form of manpower or material, to the Vietcong and NVA (1959-1975)
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    Operation Ranch Hand

    Operation Ranch Hand was designed to clear out the vegetation alongside highways, making it harder for the Vietcong to conceal themselves for ambushes.

  • United States becomes actively involved in Vietnam

    President JFK orders more help to Souht Vietnam by the way of 3,000 military advisors and support personnel

  • Gulf of Tonkin attack

    North Vietnamese torpedo patrol boats attacked the American destroyer, Maddox

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    This resolution gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam.

  • Rolling Thunder begins

    It was designed to force North Vietnam to stop supporting Vietcong guerrillas in the South and lasted until November 1, 1968

  • US offers peace for economic aid propsal

    The offer is rejected and almost two weeks later President Johnson raises America's combat strength in Vietnam to more than 60,000 troops.

  • Operation Junction City

    It was an 82-day military operation designed by the US and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or S. Vietnam). It was a massive search and destroy operation based on hopes of clearing out the Vietcong and PAVN
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    Attack on Khe Sanh

    The military base was attacked by Vietcong guerillas over a peroid of 12 weeks

  • Tet Offensive Begins

    The purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian The Tet Offensive's purpose was to strike civilian and military command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population. These uprisings would then topple the Saigon government and end the war in a single blow.

  • My Lai Massacre

    It was the mass murder conducted by a unit of the U.S. Army
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    Nixon Takes Office

    His aim is to negotiate a settlement that will allow the half President Nixon wanted to to negotiate a settlement that will
    President Nixon aimed to negoiate a settlement that would allow the half million U.S. troops in Vietnam to be withdrawn, while still allowing South Vietnam to survive.

  • Operation Menu

    This operation, authorized by President Nixon, was the bombing of North Vietnamese and Vietcong bases within Cambodia

  • Peace Talks break down

    In Paris, peace talks between the North Vietnamese and the Americans breakdown.

  • Peace Talks resume

    North Vietnam and the United States resume peace talks in Paris

  • Cease Fire Signed

    All warring parties in the Vietnam War sign a cease fire.

  • Casualties and Evacuation

    Of the more than 3 million Americans who have served in the war, almost 58,000 are dead, and over 1,000 are missing in action. Some 150,000 Americans were seriously wounded.