T. Felix Viet Nom

By felixt21
  • Period: to

    Viet Nom

  • Mao Zedong and his comunists had taken power from china

  • the begining of the korean war

  • Eisenhower said ''you heva a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one,''

  • President Dwight D. sent military to train and arm the south

  • President John F. Kennedy took office

  • Kennedy was assassinated

  • Preident lyndon B. Johnson asked congress to pass the gulf of tonkin resolution

  • the first demonstration took place

  • the first mass domonstration

  • the full-scale military inervention

  • johnson's national security advier said "i se the light at the end of the tunnel"

  • withdrawing our forces lift Nom with only 220,000 troops

  • the american embassy in saigon

  • marshall mcluhan wrote "Viet Nom was lost in the liveing rooms of america" in "not on the battlefelds of Viet Nom"

  • party leaders followed china's lead and instituted free-market reforms, known as doi moi.