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Torpedo was fired at the USS Maddox while it was patrolling the Tonkin Gulf by a North Vietnamese patrol boat
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was passed by congress that gave the president power to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the U.S
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Operation Rolling Thunder was the first sustained bombing of Vietnam
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The first major U.S combat unit arrive in North Vietnam
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Vietcong terrorist bomb the U.S embassy of Saigon
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The U.S troops went out killed anyone that looked like they were involved with the vietcong.
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The vietcong attacked a hundred towns and cities in south Vietnam.
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At Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen shoot and kill four student protesters and wound nine.
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A set of 7000 papers created by president Johnson that explained in detail how he wa going to keep us in the war
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The United States ended its involvment in the Vietnam war.