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This is when the Geneva Convection decided to split Vietnam into North and South Vietnam on the 17th parallel. This sparked the division of Vietnam and led to the Vietnam War. -
Ngô Đình Diệm was a politician in South Vietnam as well as the former president of South Vietnam. He was assassinated by the Vietcong as the mark of the culmination of the coup against the Republic of Vietnam. -
This is when Congress gave President Johnson permission to do whatever he deemed necessary to retaliate and promote US interests in Vietnam. -
In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed the first US troops to Vietnam in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, a situation where US ships were attacked without provocation. -
This was a policy adopted by the Nixon administration to slow lower American involvement with Vietnam and bring the war to an end. This led to the slow weakening of US influence and the crippling of the South Vietnamese forces. -
This was a coordinated attack on US bases in South Vietnam by the Vietcong. These attacks were technically a failure but they succeeded in demoralizing the US citizens, causing many to call for an end to the war. -
This was an atrocity performed by the US army. US soldiers massacred a village of women, children, and old men. The village was called My Lai. When this was revealed the US was filled with indignation at the atrocities committed by the US troops. This caused more people to call for the end of the war. -
Nixon becomes the president of the US by riding the support of the silent majority who opposed counter-culture. -
Nixon sent troops to Cambodia in order to disrupt North Vietnam's supply chains in order to end the war. But this only enraged the US citizens, seeing it as even more needless conflict. -
This is when about 1200 members of the "silent majority" attack a group of about 1000 student strike demonstrators. This incident only served to widen the divide between the new left and the conservative right. -
Nixon goes to China and becomes the first president to recognize and visit China. This enabled trade and foreign relations with China while also preventing them from interfering too heavily with South Vietnam. -
After the US' talks with Vietnam collapse, the US uses the bombings as a form of retaliation to bring North Vietnam back to the negotiation table. -
The Paris Peace Accords was the agreement that led to the restoration of Vietnam. It led to the end of the Vietnam War as well as the absorption of South Vietnam into North Vietnam. -
President Nixon resigned in the face of many allegations, the most famous being the Watergate Scandal. This diminished the prestige of the presidential office and humiliated citizens as well as the government. -
This is when the South Vietnamese capital was captured by the Vietcong and was quickly absorbed into Northern Vietnam. Many US troops and South Vietnamese had to be evacuated from Saigon.