Vietnam Timeline

  • Chemical Weapons

    Agent orange was used mostly throughout the war, it was an efficient way to wipe out the enemy
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    allowed President Johnson to take an precautions or steps he thought necessary for the war
  • US troops first sent

    President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets
  • Rolling Thunder

    gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States
  • Vietnamization

    the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
  • Tet Offensive

    The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
  • My Lai Massacre

    the Charlie Company of U.S. soldiers went to the My Lai village on a search and destroy mission, they had been told to treat all villagers as VC’s
  • Draft

    draft lottery which involved dates of birth to decide who would be chosen
  • Invasion of Cambodia

    U.S. troops invaded Cambodia in order to eliminate the North Vietnamese and Vietcong base camps where supplies were kept.
    1970
  • Pentagon Papers

    The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
  • End of US involvement in Vietnam

    President Nixon signs the Paris Peace Accords
  • Fall of Saigon

    Saigon, a stronghold in South Vietnam, was captured by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong, causing the South Vietnamese forces to collapse.