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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954 -
Ngô Đình Diệm was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and then served as the first President of South Vietnam from 1955 until he was captured and assassinated during the 1963 military coup -
JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald during a parade in Texas
Kennedy was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election -
Gulf of Tonkin incident, complex naval event in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam, that was presented to the U.S. Congress on August 5, 1964, as two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy of the U.S. Seventh Fleet -
Pacifist Quaker Norman Morrison burns himself in front of the Pentagon -
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968 -
The first american ground troops land on the beaches of vietnam -
300 Americans are killed and hundreds more injured in the first large-scale battle of the war, the Battle of la Drang Valley -
U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000 -
U.S. troop numbers stationed in Vietnam increase to 500,000 -
Huge Vietnam War protests occur in Washington, D.C., New York City and San Francisco. -
ARVN General Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam and will remain in office until 1975 -
The Tet Offensive begins, encompassing a combined assault of Viet Minh and North Vietnamese armies. Attacks are carried out in more than 100 cities and outposts across South Vietnam