United States and Vietnam

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  • Munich Pact

    Munich Pact
    Munich Pact was to appease Hitler and allow for the continued aggression that led to World War II

  • Ho Chi Minh

    Ho Chi Minh
    Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese communist who help oppose foreign occupation known as Viet Minh

  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders
    Japan surrenders to the Allies. Ho Chi Minh decides to declare it's Independence with reading words from Declaration of Independence.

  • First Indochina War

    First Indochina War
    6,000 Vietnamese civillians were attacked by French warships on a city called Haiphong.

  • Foreign Aid

    Foreign Aid
    Truman decided to increase military aid for French Indochina. The aid rose from $10 million to $100 million in 1 year. Us was paying 80% of the war cost.

  • Geneva Accords

    Geneva Accords
    Viet Minh signed the Geneva Accords. Which ended the violence between Vietnam and French. Vietnam became along the 17th parallel for a while.

  • Viet Minh overran French Base

    Viet Minh overran French Base
    Viet Minh ended The Battle of Dien Bien Phu by overraning the French Base and shattered French Morale.

  • Kennedy opposes

    Kennedy opposes
    Kennedy offered his on version of domino theory. He favored the policy of containing communism.

  • Viet Cong

    Viet Cong
    Viet Minh formed a group named National Liberation Front and invited all of the Diem to join. Diem named them Viet Cong , short for Vietnamese communists.

  • Buddhist Rally

    Buddhist Rally
    The South Vietnamese police killed nine demonstrators at this rally. It was a Buddhist rally opposing Diem's policies. Some Buddhist monks protested by setting themselves on fire.

  • Johnson

    Johnson approved covert attacks on radar stations. South Vietnamese in speedboats carried out raids.

  • Operation Starlite

    Operation Starlite
    First major assault by US ground troops. 1500 Viet Cong were going to attack a US air base near the coast. The battle started with bomb attacks.

  • Conflict change

    The landing of the first combat forces made conflict change in Vietnam. The us took over the responsibility for the fighting the war.

  • Viet Cong Attacked

    Viet Cong Attacked
    Viet Cong was attacked by a US air base in South. Lyndon B Johnson responded by ordering the bombing of barracks and miltary staging areas north of the 17th parallel.

  • Johnson Americanizes the War

    Johnson Americanizes the War
    3,500 Us Marines waded ashore at a beach in South Vietnam, Several Vietnamese women set flowers around soldiers necks.l