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President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called “domino theory” dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade. -
was a conference that was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War and involved several nations. -
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 South Vietnamese coup. -
was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
two battalions of U.S. Marines waded ashore on the beaches at Danang. -
was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by United States troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam. -
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President Nixon ordered United States troops to occupy parts of Cambodia. Nixon claimed that the soldiers were protecting the United States' withdrawal from South Vietnam. -
were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard -
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 an aerial bombing campaign conducted by U.S. Seventh Air Force, Strategic Air Command and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 against targets in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the final period of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. -
officially the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War -
is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States congressional joint resolution. -
The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period from the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.