Vietnam War

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  • President Eisenhower Pledges Support to South Vietnam

    President Eisenhower Pledges Support to South Vietnam

  • The French lose control of Vietnam

  • The Dividing of Vietnam

  • President Kennedy Pledges Support to South Vietnam

  • The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem

  • Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became President

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • President Johnson increases aid to South Vietnam

  • More than 536,000 American troops were in Vietnam.

  • The Tet Offensive

    was a major offensive launched by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong in 1968

  • Paris Peace Talks

  • End of Paris Peace Talks

  • 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

    American involvement in the Vietnam war ended

  • The Fall of South Vietnam

    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.