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Vietnam

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  • Vietnam became part of the French Empire

  • Ho Chi Minh was born

    He was born the 19th of May 1890. He founded the Vietnamese Communist Party and was the leader of North Vietnam until his death. Ho Chí Minh is one of history's great mass murderers, among other things, during the so-called "land reform" murdered an estimated 120,000 to 900,000 people.

  • France refused Vietnam 's independence.

    The Vietnamese communist has always claimed that Ho Chi Minh was the hero who gained independence for Vietnam from France

  • The war broke out between France and Vietnam

  • 1. Vietnam War. France lost.

    In northwest Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh forces defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu.

  • Peace Agreement reached in Geneva. Vietnam divided in two.

    The Geneva Agreements of 1954 arranged a settlement, which brought an end to the First Indochina war. The agreement started at the end of the Geneva Conference. Vietnam was divided along the 17th parallel until elections could be held to unite the country.

  • North Vietnam bombs US warships without reason.

  • US begins to send troops to Vietnam

    The U.S. Decided to send troops to Vietnam in 1965, so on March 8 3500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang i South Vietnam. They were the first U.S. troops who arrived in Vietnam.
    It was as an response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964. That the President Lyndon B. Johnson decided to escalate the Vietnam Conflict.

  • Ho Chi-Minh dies

    President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies of a heart attack in Hanoi, sep. 2. 1969.

  • US leaves all fighting on land to the South Vietnamese troops.

  • Peace Agreement between all parties involved signed

  • North Vietnam occupies the presidential palace in Saigon. Vietnam together under a communist regime . Vietnam War is over.