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Geneva Accords
The Geneva Accords was the arranged agreement that ended the first Indochina war. The agreement was reached at the Geneva Conference, a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, among several nations. -
SDS Founded
The Students for a Democratic Society was a student activist movement. It grew from three hundred students to well over fifty thousand people in nine years. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This gave President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization to use military force without a formal declaration of war by Congress. Even further, he could take any action he saw as necessary in response to violence in Southeast Asia. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns (made up of three phases) during the Vietnam War. It was launched by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, against the South Vietnamese, U.S., and allied forces. -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre was the killing of three hundred to five hundred by U.S. army soldiers during the Vietnam War. The victims included men, women, infants, and children. Some women were gang-raped. -
Invasion of Cambodia
The Invasion of Cambodia was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia. They were conducted by the U.S. and the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, in 1970. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Saigon is now known as Ho Chin Minh City.
