Vietnam

Pentagon Papers

1945

from 1945-1967 a top-secret department of Defense study of the US political and military involvement in Vietnam

Chemical Warfare

1961

through 1961- 1971 the US attacked with chemicals over 73 million liters of it

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1964

President Johnson could do anything he wanted without asking Congress first
President- Lyndon B Johnson

US troops sent in

1965

In a response to the Gulf of Tonkin the US sent troops into Vietnam to help
President- Lyndon B Johnson

Draft

1965

Men were drafted into the war to fight
President-Lyndon B Johnson

Rolling Thunder

1965

100 US air force and Vietnam air force plans dropped bombs attacking North Vietnam
Presdient- Richard M, Nixon

Tet Offensive

1968

A big defeat for the USA and Lyndon Johnson turned Americans against the war
President- Lyndon B Johnson

My Lai Massacre

1968

A mass murder of unarmed south Vietnamese civilians
President- Richard Nixon

Vietnamization

1969

Strategy by the US the pull out of the war and train Vietnam troops to defend for themselves
President- Richard Nixon

Invasion Of Cambodia

1970

Nixon declared on television that he was going to invade Cambodia
President- Richard Nixon

End in US involvement in the War

1973

The US pulled out of the war and South Vietnam were on their own
President- Richard Nixon

Fall of Saigon

1975

capture of Saigon the capital of South Vietnam marked the end of the Vietnam War
President-Gerald Ford