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The Start of The Vietnam War
Vietnam was going through some serious changes in its country, these changes affected everyone, whether they did or did not like it, and it costed them other lives along the process, to the extent that some countries started to take note of this. -
Ngo Dinh Diem's Assassination
Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated by his generals as part of a coup d’état that is carried out with the tacit support of U.S. officials. Ngo’s autocratic and violent excesses when dealing with South Vietnam’s majority Buddhist population led the U.S. to withdraw its patronage of him. -
The PROVN Military Study Exposed
After the press has gotten some research and findings. There were suggestions that the strategy of attrition being pursued by U.S. commander Gen. William Westmoreland is counterproductive, and it recommends that more U.S. effort should be directed at ensuring the security and stability of South Vietnam’s rural population. -
The My Lai Killings From America
As many as 500 unarmed villagers are killed by U.S. Army troops in the hamlet of My Lai. Groups of women, children, and elderly men are shot at close range by elements of Charlie Company of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Brigade. Attempts to cover up the massacre begin almost before the shooting stops, and only one American, Charlie Company’s 1st Platoon commander, Lieut. William Calley will be found guilty of any crime in connection with My Lai. -
Vietnamese and American Soldiers Try To Find A Middle Ground
The last U.S. military unit leaves Vietnam. In over a decade of fighting, some 58,000 U.S. troops have been killed. Vietnamese casualties include more than 200,000 South Vietnamese troops and more than 1,000,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong irregulars. Civilian deaths total as many as 2,000,000. -
The End of The Vietnam War
The American Radio Service network begins to broadcast the prerecorded message that the temperature in Saigon is astronomical and endangering. This signals the start of Operation Frequent Wind, the emergency evacuation of Saigon. American personnel begins on making more than a dozen assembly points throughout the city. Soon, some 7,000 Americans and South Vietnamese are flown to safety. The next day, North Vietnamese troops go to Saigon and the South Vietnamese government surrenders willingly.
