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Geneva Accords signed
Settle issues in North Korea and Indochina War -
Period: to
Vietnam war
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SDS founded
Students for a Democratic Society -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. -
Operation Rolling Thunder begins
Sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force -
Americans invovlment in Vietnam begins
America joins the Vietnam war -
Tet offensive
The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau -
johnson announces no reelection
announcing his withdrawal from the presidential campaign -
My Lai massacre
The mass murder of Vietnamese citizens -
Nixon wins election
Nixon became the president of the United States -
Woodstock festival
Music festival in the US -
Invasion of Cambodia
Series of military operations in Cambodia -
Kent state student shot
Students got shot at Kent State for protesting -
Pentagon Papers
United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam -
Fall of Saigon
The capture of the South Vietnamese capital