Vietnam War

By bkelley2

  • Geneva Accords

    Geneva Accords
    The Geneva Accords temporarily split up Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel in to North Vietnam and South Vietnam. All Viet Mihn soldiers went to the North, and the soldiers who fought for France, to the South.

  • Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in South Vietnam

    Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in South Vietnam
    After being overthrown, Diem is killed by a group of soldiers. This caused the U.S. to be more heavily involved in Vietnam to help try to stabilize the South's Government.

  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Tonkin Gulf Resolution
    The Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorized President Johnson to do military actions in SouthEast Asia.

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    70,000 Vietcong and North Vietnamese soldiers launched surprise attacks on the South Vietnamese and the Americans. This was a major turning point in the war, in favor of the North.

  • Democratic Convention anti-war protests

    Democratic Convention anti-war protests
    TV cameras caught 10,000 protesters at the Democratic Convention wanting an anti-war platform. Police beat the protestors.

  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    Richard Nixon's strategy in the Vietnam War to slowly remove U.S. troops and transfer the responsibilities of the war to South Vietnam

  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    The North Vietnamese invaded Saigon, which was defended by South Vietnam because all the U.S. troops had left due to Vietnamization. This basically marked the end of the war,