-
Diem did not abide the 1954 Geneva Accords, which required free elections to be held throughout Vietnam in 1956 to establish a national government.
-
Air Force T-Sgt. Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr., is listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having a casualty date of June 8, 1956.
-
President Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam.
-
US aircraft begin to spray agent orange, attempting to kill vegetation to reduce cover for guerilla troops.
-
Monks begin to light themselves on fire in protest of Diems policies.
-
The US backs the military coup in South Vietnam. Ngo Diem is killed along with his brother Ngo Nhu.
-
Kennedy is shot during one of his presidential entourages in Dallas by a hidden sniper, who was later confirmed as Lee Harvey Oswald.
-
North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked the USS Maddox while the destroyer was in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin.
-
It gave President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization to help "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty", by involving armed forces, without a formal declaration of war by Congress. It was enacted on August 10th, 1964.
-
This was the codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. It was supposed to put pressure on North Vietnam’s leaders and reduce their ability to fight.
-
Johnson orders an increase in military forces in Vietnam, from 75,000 to 125,000.
-
Total American troops in Vietnam have increased to 400,000.
-
Total American troops in Vietnam have increased to 500,000.
-
A series of attacks on more than 100 cities in South Vietnam in an attempt to create a rebellion throughout the Vietnamese population
-
