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Geneva Conference
Disscusions on the Vietnam issue started at the Geneva conference just after France suffered its worst military defeat of the war, when Vietnamese forces captured the French base at Dien Bien Phu. July 1954, the Geneva Agreements were signed. -
Operation Ranch Hand
Agent Orange was a powerful mixture of chemicals used by U.S. military forces to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, and crops that might be used to feed them. They sprayed more then 19 gallons of herbicide. -
Operation Chopper
It was the first time US forces were involed in major combat in the Vietnam War. The helicopters transported over a thousand South Vietnamese paratroopers for an assault on a suspected NLF by Saigon. -
Battle of Ap Bac
About 2,500 troops of South Vietnam's equipped with automatic weapons, armored amphibious personnel carriers, and supported by bombers and helicopters. They failed to defeat a group of 300 guerrillas who escaped after inflicting heavy losses on the South Vietnamese. -
The Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
The U.S. destoryer Maddox was under attack with another ship. Johnson moved quickly to authorize retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. The bombing was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders. -
Battle of Ia Drang Valley
It was the first major meet up of the war between the U.S. and North Vietnamese forces. The U.Ss fighted a pitched battle with Communist main-force units. -
Operation Cedar Falls
A military operation done mostly by U.S. troops. The purpose of the huge search and destroy operation was to destroy the Iron Triangle, which was an area located close to Saigon which had become a major stronghold of the communist National Liberation Front. -
Tet Offensive
A campaign of surprise attacks against military, civilian commands, and control centers in South Vietnam. The surprise attacks were by the Vietcong, wich were rebel forces in North Vietnam and the North Vietnamese forces, made attacks on cities and towns throughout South Vietnam. -
Battle Of Hue
North Korea envaded Hue City, South Vietnam. North vietnam siezed the U.S. troops and also seized the city of Hue and its population of about 140,000 citizens. The Battle lasted four weeks and cost 142 American lives. -
My Lai Massacre
Was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnan. It was committed by the U.S. Army soldiers. Victims were men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped. 26 soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon was convicted for the deaths. He served 3 and half years on house arrest. -
Vietnamization
Richard Nixon introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization it aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. It planned to help build up South Vietnams army enough to start withdrawing U.S. troops. -
US Initial Withdrawl Of Troops
The U.S. 9th Infantry Division l was the first to leave Saigon in the initial withdrawal of U.S. troops. There was 814 soldiers that were apart of the first withdrawl. With 25,000 moretroops that were withdrawn later on. Not until after the Paris Peace Accords was signed were all of the troops withdrawn. -
The death of Ho Chi Minh
President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam died of a heart attack in Hanoi, Vietnam. -
Kent State
Members of the Ohio National Guard fired at a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic that a bunch of students went on strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. -
26th Amendment
To be drafted into the army you had to be 18 and to vote you had to be 21 at the time. There was contervery were people said "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The 26th Amendment lowered the age to 18 to be able to vote. -
B-52s begin bombing North Vietnam
The U.S. command has refused to confirm the loaction og the B-52's targets. Repordetly the bombers struck in the vicinity of Vinh, 145 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone. -
The Wars Power Act
The War Powers Act was a reaction to the Vietnam War. Congress passed it when the United States withdrew from combat operations in Vietnam after more than a decade. -
Operation Breakfast
Operation Breakfast, consisted of widening the war by bombing both Cambodia and Laos in effort to destroy communist trade and supply routes leading into Vietnam. The fourteen month campaign was conducted and executed without Congress and the American public knowing. -
South Vietnam Surrenders
North Vietnamese tanks went through the gates of the Presidential Palace and the war came to an end as South Vietnam surrendered. North Vietnams president told South Vietnams president that this was a victory for both North and South Vietnam and was a loss to the Americans.
