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Gulf Of Tonkin
USS Maddox was ''under attack'' and sent planes out to bomb the northern vietnam torpedo boats. After they attempted to fire warning shots. -
Gulf Of Tonkin Part 2
President Johnson told the world that attacks were repeated 2 days after the August 2 attack but there weren't. This gave Johnson and congress the urge to start a war even though it never really happened -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Immediately after this happened Johnson came up up with a resolution to assist a government against any form of communism Johnson then went to congress begging them to put more troops in indochina basically meaning that they could retaliate -
Operation Flaming Dart
President johnson orders a bombing on Northern Vietnam since the Vietcong raided a US base in Pleiku -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Johnson now orders a 3 year campaign of certain bombing targets on the Ho Chi Minh trail and now Marines are dropped onto Da Nang beach South vietnam for the first combat troops sent out -
President Orders More Troops
President Johnson ordered 50,000 more troops to be sent to Vietnam which raised the draft to 35,000 per month -
Operation Starlite
Around 6000 US marines try to penetrate the first regiment of the Vietcong to start off the hand to hand combat war. The US defeated the front lines but it was quickly regenerated -
Ia Drang Valley
300 Americans are killed thousands of more are injured in the first true battle of the war and US ground troops are being carted off in helicopters and reinforcements are being brought in by helicopters as well. -
Start of 1966
The numbers continue to rise in Vietnam they are up to 400,000 by 1966 -
Bombing Attacks Hanoi
The US started to attack 2 cities in Northern Vietnam Hanoi and Haiphong a total of 20,000 tons of bombs were dropped together on these 2 cities. The number of US troops also begins to top 500,000 -
Nguyen Van Thieu
Nguyen Van Thieu wins the election and becomes South Vietnam's new president and takes rule of a new constitution. -
Johnson stops Bombing
President Johnson announces he will not run for reelection and ends all bombing in Northern Vietnam due to the amount of negative comments he is getting. Which this then led to Richard Nixon being elected and ending the draft.
