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President Eisenhower Pledges Support to South Vietnam
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The French lose control of Vietnam
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The Dividing of Vietnam
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President Kennedy Pledges Support to South Vietnam
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The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
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Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became President
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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President Johnson increases aid to South Vietnam
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More than 536,000 American troops were in Vietnam.
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The Tet Offensive
was a major offensive launched by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong in 1968 -
Paris Peace Talks
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End of Paris Peace Talks
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Peace
peace finally arrived when the United States, the Soviet Union, the North Vietnamese, and Vietcong signed a formal agreement. -
American involvement in the Vietnam war ended
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The Fall of South Vietnam
Without American troops involved, the North Vietnamese launched a major campaign on South Vietnam.
In 1975, North Vietnamese Communist forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, officially ending the war and uniting Vietnam under a single communist regime.
