Vietnam war

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    Vietnam War

  • Cold War was heating up in Asia

    Alarmed the U.S.

  • Korean War began

  • U.S. becoming gradually involved in Vietnamese War.

    Eisenhower sent advisers to south Vietnam.

  • Domino Theory

    Eisenhower faered that if one nation fell to Communisum then they all would.

  • Preident John F. Kennedy took office

  • Kennedy was assassinated

  • North Vietnamese ships attack U.S, ship.

  • Full-scale millitary intervention

    Arrival of first U.S. combat troops.

  • First mass demonstration of Antiwar Movement

  • Walt Rostow says he sees "the light at the end of the tunnel

    Rostow was one of Jonhson's Advisers.

  • North Vietnam(Vietcong) launched the Tet Offensive

  • Start of Peace talks in Paris

  • Nixon succeeded Johnson and began process of "veitnamization"

  • The Paris Peace Accords called for the end of all fighting and to get all troops out

  • End of the War

  • Helicopter Evacuation of Saigon

    The last helicopter left saigon with evacuees. It was heading to U.S. war ships.

  • china becomes a Freee Market

  • Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo

  • Clinton restores diplomatic relations with Vietnamm