Vietnam War

Vietcong Attack Bienhoa Air Base

Period: Jan 1, 1964 to Dec 31, 1964

Operation "Rolling Thunder" Deployed

Mar 2, 1965

Americans bombed North Vietnam it went on for three years

Veterans Stage Anti-War Rally

Period: Jan 1, 1966 to Dec 31, 1966

The veterans from world war l and ll along with with veterans from Korae war stage protest rally in New York.

Martin Luther King Speaks Out

Period: Jan 1, 1967 to Dec 31, 1967

King states the US is "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world"

Nixon begins secret bombing of Combodia

Period: Jan 1, 1968 to Aug 1, 1968

In effort to destroy communist supply routes and base camps he gave the go ahead on "Operation Breakfast"

LBJ annoues he wont run

Mar 1, 1968

With his popularity going down he annouces he wont be a candiate for re-election

Richard Nixon Elected

Nov 1, 1968

Nixon beats out Hubert Humphrey

Kent State Shooting

May 4, 1970

National Guardsman openfire on students protesting

Nixon Resigns

Aug 9, 1974

Ford calls Vietnam "Finished"

Period: Jan 1, 1975 to Dec 31, 1975

Anticipating the fall of Saigon to the communist force US annouces they're finished