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Truman takes office.
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Eisenhower takes office.
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Kennedy takes office.
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Immediatley Johnson became President after the assasination of Kennedy.
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
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The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 88-408, which becomes known as the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, giving President Johnson the power to take whatever actions he deems necessary to defend Southeast Asia including "the use of armed force."
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A coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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A company of American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai in March 1968. Though exact numbers remain unconfirmed, it is believed that as many as 500 people including women, children and the elderly were killed in the My Lai Massacre.
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Nixon was very involved with the Vietnam War conflict, as commander in chief he saw through military action in his term.
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On April 30th of 1970, President Richard Nixon declared to a television audience that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People's Army, were to invade Cambodia.
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On May 4th, 1970 Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on students, wounding nine and killing four.
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The act put into place to increase congressional control over military affairs, allowing congress to decide on military actions, including formal declaration of war.
