the vietnam war

Nazi Germany takes control of France

Jun 27, 1940

The troops began invading Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France on May 1940 but finished June 1940

Ho Chi Minh establishes the league for the independence of Vietnam

May 19, 1941

on May 1941 the Viet Minh movement aims to resist Japanese and French occupation of vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh rejects a french proposal

Jun 13, 1946

this proposal was going to grant vietnam limited self government, this began a guerrilla war against the french

The French install former emperor Bao Dai as head of state in Vietnam.

Jun 6, 1949

The first U.S. soldiers are killed in South Vietnam when guerrillas raid their living quarters near Saigon.

Jul 20, 1959

President John F. Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorizes secret operations against the Viet Cong.

May 27, 1961

President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas

Nov 22, 1963

President Johnson orders the bombing of targets in North Vietnam

Feb 2, 1965

This was in the operation Flaming Dart in retaliation for a Viet Cong raid in Pleiku

U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000.

1966

Under strict communist rule, North and South Vietnam was officially united as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

1975