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establishing the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at the battle of Điện Biên Phủ
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cheered by an enormous crowd gathered in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. It would be 30 years, however, before Ho’s dream of a united, communist Vietnam became reality.
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Vietnam: U.S. Advisors 1955-1965. The U.S. military advisory effort in Vietnam had a modest beginning in September 1950, when the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Vietnam, was established in Saigon.
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17th parallel
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President Eisenhower was the first to refer to countries in danger of Communist takeover as dominoes.
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The United States soon stepped up to fill the vacuum, increasing military aid to South Vietnam and sending the first U.S. military advisers to the country in 1959
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South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem declares in a broadcast that since South Vietnam had not signed the Geneva Agreements, South Vietnam was not bound by them.
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North Vietnam announces the formation of the National Front for the Liberation of the South at a conference held “somewhere in the South.” This organization, more commonly known as the National Liberation Front (NLF), was designed to replicate the success of the Viet Minh
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Buddhist Monk, He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs
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Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated
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Upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. ... Following the 1968 presidential election he was succeeded by Republican Richard Nixon.
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U.S.S. Maddox and U.S.S. Turner Joy, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution at the insistence of President Lyndon B. Johnson, with the understanding that the president would seek their approval before launching a full-scale war in Vietnam with U.S. military personnel.
