my Vietnam time line

By lawren rogers

  • Korean conflict ended in 1953

  • Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnamese Monarchy .

  • The geneva was divide was temporary and under free elections to be held

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  • u.s presadent John F Kennedy sent american troops to vietnam

  • president Johnson involvement in the war

  • Operation Starlite,the first major ground battle of the war, began.

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  • supposedly the verge collapse, mounted the tet offensive.

    on January 30, 1968, when the enemy, supposedly on the verge of collapse, mounted the Tet Offensive

  • the viet cong officer was executed by south vietnamese national

    On February 1, 1968, a suspected Viet Cong officer was summarily executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief.

  • Over 500,000 American troops were killed .

    1968, over 500,000 troops were stationed there, and the toll of American soldiers killed, as reported every Thursday on the evening news,

  • THE Vietnames government antagonized many citizens.

    The South Vietnamese government also antagonized many of its citizens with its suppression of political opposition, through such measures as holding large numbers of political prisoners, torturing political opponents, and holding a one-man election for President in 1971