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Ho Chi Minh is born. This is important because he is the Nationalist leader of North Vietnam. He will go on to fight for independence for his country.
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Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independence in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square. Reading from the second line of US declaration of independence, all men are created equal.
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The defeat at Dien Bien Phu caused the negotiators at the Geneva Conference to finalize the Geneva Accords. This divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
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This was very important because it was a sign to the people that even though they were told they were a free state and could vote, this showed that they weren't really free. Diem decided to cancel the elections because he knew that communism would win and take over the country. What the people were voting over was whether to keep North and South Vietnam separate or Unite the nation
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The importance of the Domino Theory is it shows how quickly and straight forward thins can happen. The theory was that if we were to let Vietnam become communist slowly but surely other countries around would become communist and would soon turn the US into communist
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This was a French stronghold, that once lost control to the Communist signaled an end to French Colonial influence in Indochina. The US stepped in and supplied more aid to the South Vietnamese and sent there first military Advisers over.
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They were a communist Army in the south founded by Nguyen Van Hieu. They were also known as the Viet Cong. They occupied South Vietnam
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Buddhist began holding protest rallies against Diem, because he was killing Buddhist. US was finally convinced and withdrew. Diem was Assassinated shortly after.
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This was a major signal to the US that they had to do something. The man was a Buddhist monk, and was doing this because the Buddhist were being slaughtered by Diem
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Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, Later that evening Johnson is sworn in on Air force One. Vietnam might have been more voted towards what the people wanted, because JFK was strongly associated with the Civil Rights Movement.
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This was called the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, and was a claim that a US ship had been fired upon by 3 North Vietnamese vessels. The ship that was fired upon was the USS Maddox, and from this incident came Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which allowed Johnson to greatly escalate the US military Involvement in Vietnam
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This is important because it established that the U.S was involved. The US sent Military advisers in September of 1950
