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Kennedy's assassination
The 35th president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in motorcade -
Lyndon Johnson
The 36th president sworn in after Kennedy's assassination -
Gulf of Tonkin
issued by Johnson, U.S. destroyer ships had been sunk by North Vietnamese torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin, a body of water located 30 miles off the coast of Vietnam. This was made up and not true, but it deepened U.S. interest in the war. -
War Protesting
A bunch of hippie protesting war in Washington D.C. -
Tet offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam -
Richard Nixon
Won presidency and served at the 37th president -
Paris peace accord
an agreement between the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam , the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, and the United States to bring an end to the Vietnam War. -
Saigon captured
the North Vietnamese Army took over Saigon with little resistance, and it was quickly renamed Ho Chi Min City in honor of their revolutionary leader, Ho Chi Min, who had died several years before.
