Vietnam War

Indochina

Jun 10, 1940

Japan takes over French Indonesia in World War II

Vietnam Independence

Jun 10, 1941

Ho Chi Minh establishes the Vietnam, The "League for the Independence of Vietnam"

Democratic Replubic Of Vietnam(DRV)

Jun 10, 1945

Japan surrenders. Ho Chi forms the Democratic Replubic Of Vietnam(DRV)

indochina

Jun 10, 1951

French control cities and Vietnam control countrysides

Indochina

Jun 10, 1954

Vietnam take Dien and defeat French, ending first Indochina war.Gevena divide Vietnam in North and South.

Vietnam War

Jun 10, 1963

President John F. Kennedy orders more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war against the Vietcong guerrillas.

Vietnam war

Jul 10, 1964

On this night, South Vietnamese commandos attack two small North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin. The U.S. destroyer Maddox, a electronic spy ship, South send a air attack to draw North Vietnamese boats away from the commandos.

Vietnam War

Oct 10, 1964

China, North Vietnam's neighbor and ally, successfully tests an atomic bomb.

Vietnam End

Apr 10, 1975

At 4:03 a.m., two U.S. Marines are killed in a rocket attack at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. They are the last Americans to die in the Vietnam War. At dawn, the last Marines of the force guarding the U.S. embassy lift off. Only hours later, looters ransack the embassy, and North Vietnamese tanks role into Saigon, ending the war. In 15 years, nearly a million NVA and Vietcong troops and a quarter of a million South Vietnamese soldiers have died. Hundreds of thousands of civilians had been kil