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Vietnam History Timeline

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  • Vietnam rulers killed Catholics & priest, causing the French to get involved.

    Vietnam rulers killed Catholics & priest, causing the French to get involved.

  • France takes over Saigon (present Ho Chi Minh City), and spreads power to Laos and Cambodia, creating French Indochina.

    France takes over Saigon (present Ho Chi Minh City), and spreads power to Laos and Cambodia, creating French Indochina.

  • The French split Vietnam up into three different districts; Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China. France then use water controlling to open a new agricultural land in the Mekong Delta.

    The French split Vietnam up into three different districts; Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China. France then use water controlling to open a new agricultural land in the Mekong Delta.

  • Ho Chi Minh appears in Paris at the end of WW1, and tries to ask President Woodrow Wilson for independence of Vietnam.

  • The French split Vietnam up into three different districts; Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China. France then use water controlling to open a new agricultural land in the Mekong Delta.

  • The Japanese surrender. Ho Chi Minh announces freedom & union of French colonizer provinces as Vietnam.

  • Nationalist Chinese, French, and the Vietnamese compete for control over Vietnam land. Debates fail and French forces attack them at Hanoi’s harbour.

  • United States supports military overthrow against the disliked President Diem; His death causes in a series of control changes in the South.

  • North Vietnamese patrol boat strikes a United States demolisher in the Gulf of Tonkin. US President Lyndon Johnson is granted war powers.

  • United States combat troops arrive in Vietnam, starting 2nd Vietnam War. General Nguyen Van Thieu undertakes charge of the South.

  • Richard Nixon assumes presidency in the United States and begins “Vietnamization” policy (removing United States ground troops to swap for increased funding of South Vietnamese) and secret bombing of Viet Cong inside Cambodian borders. Ho Chi Minh dies.

  • The Paris Peace Agreements is negotiated by Nixon and Kissinger. The US removes troops quickly following Agreement, but war continues relentless in the South.

  • Communists take Saigon. Last remaining United States citizens are sent away. Vietnam joined under Communist rule. Saigon is renamed Ho Chi Minh City.

  • Vietnam invades Cambodia and take over govern from Khmer Rouge. Tension with China, which supported Khmer Rouge, increase.

  • Diplomatic relationship is stabilised between the United States and Vietnam.