vietnam

By ajlemoine
  • Period: Jan 1, 1420 to

    Vietnam War Timeline Assignment

  • 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

  • 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

  • operation rolling thunder,

    a campaign against military targets in the north, by Johnson

  • 13,700 men were drafted by the selective service

  • 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  • congress repealed the Tonkin gulf resolution in dec 1970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

  • 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

  • remaining americans are evacuated from Vietnam, the Saigon government surrenders unconditionally.