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Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of Vietnam from France.
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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower uses this theory to express how if one state becomes communist others will follow. This is reasoning for US involvement.
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Vietnam is seperated into North and South at the 17th Parallel, this is supposed to create calamity but later raises tension.
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Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself premier of the Republic of Vietnam.
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A network of roads built from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia is used to provide supplies to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army.
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U.S. forces spray color-coded herbicides over the rural landscape in Vietnam to defoliate trees and shrubs and kill food crops that were providing cover and food to opposition forces. Like in every war there is a new type of weapon, ie. atomic bomb.
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Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as President after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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The destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engages three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron and a sea battle results. This will lead to the Tonkin Resolution.
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The gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force erial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and thus represented a major expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Communist launch wave of surprise attacks in South Vietnam that will start the bloodiest battles of the war.
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The executions and mass killings perpetrated by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army during their capture, occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Hue during the Tet Offensive finally comes to an end.
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Covert United States Strategic Air Command bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia and Laos begins, the success leads to other air raids.
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Members of the Ohio National Guard fire into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine students. This furthers the publics dislike for the war.
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The New York Times published the "United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense" which reveiled to the public revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scale of the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.
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U.S. responds to the Nguyen Hue Offensive by the North Vietnamese by using B-52s against Hanoi and Haiphong.
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President Richard Nixon ends America’s direct involvement in the Vietnam War.
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South Vietnam surrenders, bringing about an end to the Vietnam War.
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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in DC honors those who gave their lives during the war.
