Vietnam War

By DarilRenderos

  • Geneva Accords signed

    Settle issues in North Korea and Indochina War
  • Period: to

    Vietnam war

  • 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