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Baby boom started from 1940's to 1950's, Americans households grew larger. GI Bill encouraged families.
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Free election support promised by the United States to reunify this land
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The Vietnam war began. The countries involved were a total of 21 countries, the United States being one of them.
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American first combat mission in helicopter against Viacong in North Vietnam
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John F. Kennedy assassinated
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Gulf of Tonkin incident was when 2 United States ships were fired from North Vietnam. This rose a major military conflict and increased United States military.
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Atomic Bomb is tested by China. China was one of the countries involved also in the Vietnam War
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President Lyndon B Johnson send 60,000 troops to vietnam
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At the end of this year there were about 6,000 American killed and 30,000 wounded. On the other side 61,000 Vietnam men were killed, there was about 280,000 Vietnam men and 385,000 American men
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North vietnam joins forces to with the Viet Cong a communist community and attacks south Vietnam.
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War in Vietnam reaches 540,000 US troops.
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US deaths exceed more than 33,629 men
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President Nixon withdraws the first American Troops from Vietnam.
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After war had concluded, troops were returning home. On March 1973, the last troop returned home.
