-
time between the vietnam war
-
The air force uses agent orange to clear out forests. Agent orange is a chemical that deforms things that it touches. the vietnameise people would touch the agent orange and deform, thats why we don't use it ay more.
-
John F. Kennedy gets assassinated.
-
north vietnam is bombed by rolling thunder air ships.(B-52)
-
Operation "Rolling Thunder" Deployed: Sustained American bombing raids of North Vietnam, dubbed Operation Rolling Thunder, begin in February. The nearly continuous air raids would go on for three years.
-
Operation Cedar Falls Begins: In a major ground war effort dubbed Operation Cedar Falls, about 16,000 US and 14,000 South Vietnamese troops set out to destroy Vietcong operations and supply sites near Saigon. A massive system of tunnels is discovered in an area called the Iron Triangle, an apparent headquarters for Vietcong personnel.
-
Running on a platform of "law and order," Richard Nixon barely beats out Hubert Humphrey for the presidency.
-
Nixon Begins Secret Bombing of Cambodia: In an effort to destroy Communist supply routes and base camps in Cambodia, President Nixon gives the go-ahead to "Operation Breakfast." The covert bombing of Cambodia, conducted without the knowledge of Congress or the American public, will continue for fourteen months.
-
Responding to charges by Democratic presidential candidates that he is not moving fast enough to end US involvement in Vietnam, President Nixon orders troop strength reduced by seventy thousand.