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The beginning of conflict
September 13, 1945 british forces arrive in Saigon, South Vietnam.In North Vietnam 150,000 Chinese soldiers, consisting mainly of poor peasants, arrive in Hanoi after looting Vietnamese villages during their entire march down from China. They then loot Hanoi.
September 22, 1945 in South Vietnam, 1400 French soldiers released by the British from former Japanese internment camps enter Saigon and go on a deadly rampage attacking Viet Minh and killing innocent civilians -
Eisenhower sites the domino theory
Eisenhower sites that the domino theory was the theory that if one of the nations fell to communism then the other countries would follow. -
Indochina War
At Dien Bien Phu the French made their final stand. In the same year, the Geneva Accords were signed, and the French left their colonies in Indochina. These accords split Vietnam in half, North and South, but did not end the fighting. South Vietnam now quaked in fear of the communist North overtaking them -
Campaign of terror against villages controlled by Diem
During the Vietnam War, a distinctive land warfare strategy and organization was used by the Main Force of the People's Liberation Armed Forces better known as the Viet Cong or VC in the West and the NVA North Vietnamese Army/People's Army-Vietnam to defeat their American and South Vietnamese opponents. -
United States Military begins using Agent Orange
u.s millitary uses a chemical to kill off the vegitation. used to give ammericans better perspective. -
Vietcong Formed
Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam. -
Gulf of Tonkin
Tonkin Incident Vietnamese: also known as the USS Maddox Incident, is the name given to two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. -
First U.S ground troops sent to Vietnam
In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2nd and 4th, of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, with the authority given to him by Congress in the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, decided to escalate the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam -
U.S arial bombing- objective rolling thunder
The United States started bombing Cambodia to get North Vietnam to surrender to the South. -
Tet offensive
was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army against the forces in South Vietnam. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
policy to "Vietnamixation" announced
Richard Nixon's policy during the Vietnam War to end the U.S.' involvement in the war and "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops". -
Kent State incident
Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, unarmed college students were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard during a protest. -
Watergate Scandal
Four men were arrested at the watergate hotel in the democratic election office. they were hired by Richard Nixon to obtain election information. Nixon was later to be impeached and forced to resign -
Troops withdrawn from Vietnam
The United States troops returned home. they were not given a heroes welcome, people spit on them and called them names
