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Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was set up to find a way to unify Korea and restore peace in Indochina. The United States was partially blamed by some people for Korea being unified as a communist state. -
First American Death
Air Force Tech Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr was the first American soldier to die. He was killed by a fellow airman. -
Spraying of the Jungles
US tanker planes sprayed over 12 million gallons of Agent Orange in the jungles of the enemys between 1961 and 1971. The Agent Orange contained over 375 pounds of dioxin, and a nationwide survey was planned to count the victims killed by it, but it never happened. The birth defects after the use of the chemical were ridiculous. -
South Vietnamese Protests
Buddhist monks who were protesting against President Diem’s Regime were fired upon by police. Some monks took it upon themselves to light themselves on fire to get the rally going and prove their point. -
Tonkin Resolution
The Tonkin Resolution was signed due to a battle at sa between North Vietnam and a USS ship. It gave Lyndon B Johnson permission for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia without declaring war. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Republic of Vietnam. The sagging morale of the Saigon regime in the Republic of Vietnam was one of the four objectives of Operation Rolling thunder. Persuading North Vietnam to cease support for the communists in South Vietnam, destroying North Vietnam’s transportation system, air defenses and industrial base, and stopping men and material into South Vietnam were the other three objectives of it. -
March on the pentagon
70,000 protestors went to Washington D.C to “Confront the Warmakers”. They were organized by ‘the Mobe’ and people were there for many different reasons. Some were pacifists to Vietcong sympathizers and some just wanted to end the war. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was created as a result of Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive. Richard Nixon thought it would expand, equip and train South Vietnam’s forces while steadily withdrawing U.S troups. -
Tet Offensive
The tet offensive was created by the People’s Army of Veitnam against the Forces of the Republic Veitnam, the United States, and their allies. They launched it during a time that no attacks were supposed to take place. MIlitary and civilian command and control centers throughout South Veitnam were taken by surprise. -
Life releases portraits
The portraits of 242 Americans that were killed during battle in Vietnam in a week were printed by Life. The magazine claims that that is the average amount of deaths for every 7 day period during the war. -
Cambodia Invasion
American and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia to destroy bases that aided the NLF. They had planned on defeating around 40,000 North Vietnamese troops and to capture their headquarters, but they never did. Both of their forces and headquarters were too difficult to find -
Kent State
Protest videoFour students were killed and nine were wounded by the Ohio National Guard guardsmen at Kent State University. They had been shot because they were protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia and others were shot because they had simply been walking or observing. -
Jackson State Deaths
Two students were killed during an anti-war protest at Jackson College in MIssissippi by police shootings. The protests were triggered by the Kent State University protest. . -
26th Amendment
The 26th Amendment states that citizens of the United States and are18 years or older have the right to vote and can’t be denied of that right. It also states that Congress has the power to enforce it by appropriate legislation. Soldiers who had served in the Vietnam war felt as if it was their right to be able to vote because they had served their country. -
Pentagon Papers Released
Portions of “Pentagon Papers” were released by the New York Times. They recieved the papers by Daniel Ellsber, who was an American military analyst. The papers contained top secret information that the Department of Defense about U.S political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945-1967. -
Watergate
The headquarters for the Democratic National Committee was burglarized by five men, who were caught right away. President Nixon’s resignition was resulted by the events that their arrests caused. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Act was passed by congress when the U.S withdrew from combat operations in Vietnam after being there for more than a decade. The president has permission to send troops into combat zones, but hehas to have a valid explanation for doing so for Congress after 48 hours. -
Vietnam's Ceasefire was signed
A peace agreement was signed by representatives from South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the United states. The United States withdrew combat troops, and the government of South Vietnam held free elections to allow its people to decide their future. -
South Korean Surrender
“Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam was signed” January 27, which ended the U.S’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Prisoners of war were let go and both sides agreed to make it a political solution that would be best for each side. -
End of the War
ALthough military advisors and some Marines stayes, U.S combat soldiers left VIetnam. Over 60,000 American Lives were lost and around 150,000 were wounded out of the 3 million that served.
