President Eisenhower sends US advisers to vietnam.
President John F. Kennedy sends US special forces to vietnam.
American Helicopters arrive at docks in South Vietnam along with 400 US personnel.
At the hamlet of Ap Bac, the Vietcong 514th Battalion and local guerrilla forces ambush the South Vietnamese Army's 7th division.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
The Gulf of Tonken incident.
Two days before the U.S. presidential election, Vietcong mortars shell Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon. Four Americans are killed, 76 wounded. Five B-57 bombers are destroyed, and 15 are damaged.
The march to Washington against the war (the largest war protest in American history.)
