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Le Duan replaced Ho Chi Minh as the First Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party in Hanoi.
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John F. Kennedy won against Richard Nixon in the U.S. presidential election and appointed Lyndon B. Johnson as vice president.
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Southern revolutionaries, backed by the North Vietnamese Communist Party, form the National Liberation Front, known in Saigon and Washington as the Viet Cong.
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President John F Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorizes secret operations against the Viet Cong.
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Self immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in Saigon causes anger around the world and brings attention to the developing conflict.
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President Diem along with his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu are killed during a meeting by generals of the South Vietnamese army.
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Kennedy is assassinated and then Vice President Johnson is sworn in as president.
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Two supposed incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin lead Johnson to convince congress to allow U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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First Marines land in Danang vietnam.
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In the Ia Drang Valley, American troops fight their first large scale battles against the North Vietnamese Army.
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Hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters rally together in protest in New York’s Central Park and in Washington.
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During the Tet Offensive, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launch surprise attacks against targets throughout South Vietnam.
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Johnson announces he will not run for re-election after his 4 year term.
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Nixon is elected president,and he promising to end the war in Vietnam, no matter the cost.
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The first Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a series of mass demonstrations across the United States, take place; a second happens on Nov. 15.
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Nixon goes on television to call for national solidarity on the Vietnam War effort, appealing to a “silent majority” in attempt to gain support.
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Four days after Nixon announced the expansion of the war into Cambodia, four students at Kent State are shot by National Guardsmen during a protest. Which fueled the antiwar activists more.
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The Easter Offensive invasion by North Vietnamese forces is successfully repelled by South Vietnamese.
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Cease-fire agreement is reached between U.S. and North Vietnam, U.S. POWs begin to return home.
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Last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam.
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Nixon leaves office.
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President Bill Clinton Normalizes the US relations with Vietnam.
