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May 6, 1428
Limited Independence
Vietnam won independence from the Chinese. Le Loi (emperer of Vietnam) used guerrilla wardare to take the Chinese out. Later he became Emperor. -
French Invasion
French invaded Vietnam to gain access to Asian trade and try to convert people to Catholicism. China was defeated by the French and the wavering court attempted to find a new settlement. -
Imperial Encounter
Japanese occupied Indochina during WWII while Ho Chi Minh (the advisor with Chinese Communist Armed Forces) planned for freedom. -
Imperial Encounter
French and Vietnam fought in French Indochina. The United States decided to help France because they were against Ho Chi Minh's communist teachings. -
Chinese Alliance
The Treaty of Alliance was signed by communist China helping to limit United States influence -
Battle
Vietnam and the French were battling, the French expected help from the U.S but they never came so the Chinese forced French to surrender. -
Diplomacy
An International conference for the conflict of Indochina to settle began in Geneva, Switzerland. -
Event
The French leave Vietnam. -
Alliance
North Vietnam makes group 559 move troops, weapons and material from North Vietnam to South Vietnam using the Ho Chi Minh Trail. -
Homefront
America's first combat mission against Viet Cong called Operation Chopper because the US used helicopters. -
Event
A coup was led by General Van Minh, they captured and executed Diem and his brother. -
Event
The U.S.S Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats. A sea-battle resulted but in 2005 the NSA says the government lied about the attack and said it never happened. -
Tactic
Starting in February and lasting for three years, Operation Rolling Thunder sustained bombing raids of North Vietnam -
Trend
United States offered North Vietnam economic aid in exchange for peace, but the offer was denied two weaks later and President Johnson raised american troops by 60,000. -
Homefront
Thousands of students in WA D.C protested against war. -
Battle
About 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. North Vietnam achieved a stretegic victory with the Tet offensive, the attacks marked a bad turning withdrawl of the Americans. -
Two Tactics
President Richard Nixon took office and introduced a new strategy that involved ending American involvment in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. -
Homefront
Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, students were protesting the war and a Ohio National Guard killed four studetns and wounded nine others, one suffered from permament paralysis. -
Homefront
Congress prohibited US combat forces from Laos and Cambodia. -
Homefront
The New York Times let out secret documents that showed how the Government lied about many things in the war, they called it "The Pentagon Papers". -
Battle
The Easter Offensive, when North Vietnamese crossed the demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel to attack South Vietnam. -
Diplomacy
The Paris Peace Accords intended to establish peace in Vietnam and to end Vietnam War. U.S agrees to withdraw combat troops and the government of South Vietnam agrees to hold free elections. -
Event
North Vietnamese Politburo orders major People's Army of Vietnam offensive to liberate South Vietnam by NVA cross- border invasion. -
Event
North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon and ruin the gates of the Presidential Palace with a tank. They accept the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam. After 20 years of fighting the Vietnam War is over.
