Vietnam Timeline

By Gochanour
  • Period: to

    Vietnam Timeline

  • ICP

    Ho Chi Minh Found the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP).

  • Guerrilla force

    ICP organizes a guerrilla force, Viet Minh, in reponse to invastion by Japan during World War II.

  • Vietnam's independence

    The Viet Minh seizes power. Ho Chi Minh announces Vietnam's independence.

  • Viet Mihn

    French forces attack Viet Mihn in Haiphong in November, sparking the war of resistance against the colonial power.

  • Deomocratic Republic

    Democratic Republic of Vietnam is recognized by China and USSR.

  • Ngo Dinh Diem

    South Vietnamese Presidnet Ngo Dinh Diem begins campaign against political dissidents

  • Communist

    Beginning of Communist insurgency in the South.

  • Weapons

    Weapons and men from North Vietnam began infiltrating the South

  • South Vietnam

    Viet Cong, the communist guerrillas operating in South Vietnam, defeated units of the ARVN, the South Vietnamese Army. President Diem is overthrown and then killed in a US-backed military coup.

  • North Veitnam

    Gulf of Tonkin incident: the US says North Vietnamese patrol boats fire on two US Navy destroyers. US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing military action in region.

  • Arrival of Americans

    200,000 American combat troops arrive in South Vietnam.

  • Nixon

    NIxon's national security advisor, Hentry Kissinger, and Led Duc Tho, for the Hanoi government, starts talks in Paris

  • Ceasefire

    Ceasefire agreement in Par, US troop pull-out completed by March

  • President Duong

    NOrth Vietnamese troops invade South vietnam and take control of the whole country after South vietnamese President Duong Van Minh surrenders

  • Memorial

    Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington D.C.

  • Prisoners

    U.S. Offers Asylum to Vietnamese Political Prisoners.

  • Vietnam Policy

    McNamara Calls Vietnam Policy "Wrong, Teribly Wrong"

  • Ambassadors

    U.S. and Vietnam Exchange Ambassadors