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As part of the agreement the French pledge to assist in the building of a national anti-Communist army
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A force of 40,000 heavily armed Viet Minh lay siege to the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu
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as a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to unify Vietnam and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina.
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he US Military Assistance Advisory Group assumes responsibility, from French, for training South Vietnamese forces.
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Thirteen Americans working for MAAG and US Information Service are wounded in terrorist bombings in Saigon
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John F. Kennedy narrowly defeats Richard Nixon for the presidency.
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400 guerrillas attack village in Kien Hoa Province, and are defeated by South Vietnamese troops.
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a defoliant that came in metal orange containers-to expose roads and trails used by Viet Cong forces.
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Kennedy's death meant that the problem of how to proceed in Vietnam fell squarely into the lap of his vice president, Lyndon Johnson.
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was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed
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was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force
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The first American combat troops, the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, arrive in Vietnam to defend the US airfield at Danang. Scattered Vietcong gunfire is reported, but no Marines are injured.
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was a military campaign during the Vietnam War
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Over 540,000 troops withdrawaled
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was a policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration during the Vietnam War
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May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard
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setting a voting age higher than eighteen.
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Last American Troops Leave Vietnam 1973
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is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress.
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Although, it really wasn't a surrender, it was a capture
