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The Geneva Conference that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, discussed if Ho Chi Minh should take Southern Vietnam. They later decided to divide Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel.
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President Eisenhower was given broad military powers as long as he does not declare war on Northern Vietnam as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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The Vietcong usually used tunnels that went through Cambodia in order to get into Southern Vietnam. When they managed to attack most of our bases and embassies, we retaliated by bombing the tunnels in Cambodia.
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A mass murder committed by US troops against innocent Vietnamese civilians.
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President Richard Nixon won the election of 1968 against George McGovern
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Students were rioting at Kent State about Nixon's actions in the war. The police interfered, and four were killed, several were injured.
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North Vietnam conquered the capital of South Vietnam.
