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Vietnam would become an independent nation, formally ending 75 years of French colonialism. The former French colonies Cambodia and Laos would also be given their independence, Vietnam would be temporarily divided for a period of two years. -
Diem was a Vietnamese politician, and the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and then served as President of South Vietnam from 1955 till 1963 until he was assassinated during the military coup. -
Congress passed the Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take measures he believed were needed to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in Southeast Asia. -
Two of U.S. Marines waded ashore on the beaches at Danag, Those 3,500 soldiers were the first combat troops the United States had dispatched to South Vietnam to support the Saigon government. -
Was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians. American soldiers brutally killed most of the people-women, children and old men. -
Also known as, general offensive, uprising of Tet Mau Than was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
He was elected 37th President after serving as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from California after successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and international relations. -
It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. -
Was a policy of the Richard Nixon admin to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to build Vietnam. -
Nixon made the decision to launch American forces into Cambodia with the special objective of capturing COSVN, the headquarters of the entire communist military operation in South Vietnam. He held a speech called "Vintage Nixon." -
Nixon visited China to strategically and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon admins resumption of relations between the U.S. and mainland China after years of isolation. -
Nixon ordered the start of a massive, two-week bombing campaign of communist North Vietnam. -
Officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. -
The South Vietnamese stronghold of Saigon falls to the People's Army of Vietnam and Viet Cong on April 1975. The forces had collapsed under the rapid advancement of the North Vietnamese.