Vietnam War

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin

    USS Maddox was attacked by three North Vietnamese boats
  • US Troops First Sent

    US Troops First Sent

    3500 troops landed in south Vietnam being the first to do so
  • Chemical Weapons

    Chemical Weapons

    Started being used at the beginning of Rolling Thunder and through the entire war
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder

  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization

    When the US started to withdraw troops from Vietnam and made the South start doing it by themselves
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

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    Tet Offensive

    Surprise North Vietnamese attack on the South involving many cities, caught many by surprise
  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre

    A massacre of innocent Vietnamese civilians and children by the US
  • Draft

    Draft

    Draft to call young men to serve in military
  • Invasion of Cambodia

    Invasion of Cambodia

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    Invasion of Cambodia

    US invades Cambodia, causes uproar they were originally neutral but got dragged in
  • Pentagon Papers

    Pentagon Papers

    A series of texts that were written well before the war, it stated different scenarios for war if it were to occur. Published 1971
  • End of US involvement in the Vietnam war

    End of US involvement in the Vietnam war

    Nixon signs Paris Peace Accords and ends US involvement in Vietnam
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon

    NLF take over the capital city of the south and rename it to Ho Chi Minh City which basically ended the war