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Period: Jan 1, 1420 to
Vietnam War Timeline Assignment
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Jan 1, 1428
Independence from the Chinese
le loi rebelled as peasants by day and by 1428 the rebels drove out the Chinese -
the Geneva conference
, this made a settlement about the government in Vietnam and tried to resolve the argument -
French controlled vietnam
French won over Vietnam and combined with Laos and Cambodia to make one of French’s richest possessions -
Japanese had taken Indochina
Philippines, Malaya, and Indonesia; they left the French colonial government in place but controlled it. -
french capture Vietnam
U.S. had helped the French capture Vietnam again and didn’t side with Vietnamese -
south korea and U.S formed a alliance
they formed a alliance so that they could try and stop communist from spreading throughout asia -
battle of Dien Bien Phu
this battle separated Vietnam from the French power. -
Genaral elections
this was when communist was more than likely to win the votes, and U.S. refused to endorse the agreement -
military assistance
military assistance began to flow from the north to the Vietminh who had stayed in the south -
500 people killed in Vietnam from 14 in 1961
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Diem and his brother murdered
this is the south leader and this upset U.S advisors who had been prepared to flu Diem out of the country -
attacks in gulf in Tonkin
the ships had been attacked in the gulf of Tonkin and he asked congress to authorize the use of military force to prevent further aggression -
First American troops arrived in Vietnam
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operation rolling thunder,
a campaign against military targets in the north, by Johnson -
13,700 men were drafted by the selective service
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Tet, a Vietnamese New Year,
however NLF guerrillas and North Vietnamese troops attacked the South’s camps and their allies -
Vietnamization,
Nixon’s end of war plan to turn fighting over to South Vietnamese, while US troops left. Early in 1969 a widespread bombing of Cambodia was ordered by Nixon. To destroy north v. supplies -
demonstrators were killed by national guard troops,
, four of them were killed, 9 injured. Many stagg and students of colleges went on strike after this. -
congress repealed the Tonkin gulf resolution in dec 1970
In response to Nixon thinking he could carry on the war -
the NYT started publishing secret documents of the governments known as Pentagon Papers, showing how the government misled Americans
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north invaded south in march 1972
hoped to reveal weakness of Nixon’s Vietnamization. Responded with Nixon ordering heavy bombing of north. -
negotiators in paris announced a cease-fire
Us pledges to withdraw remaining forces from south Vietnam and help rebuild Vietnam -
north Vietnamese troops took over the north part of south Vietnam the south Vietnamese retreated in panic
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remaining americans are evacuated from Vietnam, the Saigon government surrenders unconditionally.