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Monks set them self on fire to protest the war.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara tells the press that the Kennedy administration intends to withdraw most American forces from South Vietnam by the end of 1965. The gap widens between information released by the U.S. government and the actual situation in Vietnam.
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With U.S. encouragement, South Vietnamese General Duong Van Minh overthrows the Diem regime, and the following day he orders the execution of Diem and his brother.
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Some 1,000 students gather in New York City to protest the Vietnam War. Twelve burn their selective service registration cards in a symbolic gesture of opposition to the war.
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The USS Maddox reports a second assault by North Vietnamese gunboats, though evidence of such an attack is inconclusive. President Lyndon B. Johnson orders retaliatory strikes. The U.S. bombs North Vietnam for the first time.
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The first unit of North Vietnamese troops is sent to the South; by May 1965 they will have 6500 men there
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The Viet Cong attack a U.S. Air Force base at Pleiku, South Vietnam, killing eight Americans and wounding more than 100.
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President johnson orders a carpet of bombs to be dropped in vietnam
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Students learn about the vietnam war at the ann arbor
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The highly aggressive "search and destroy" military strategy will be employed throughout Gen. Westmorland's tenure
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The vietnam war ends.
