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The domino theory was a Cold War suggested a communist government in one nation would lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos. -
the Geneva Agreements were signed. As part of the agreement, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam -
President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers -
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate -
The United States first deployed troops to Vietnam in 1965 in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, -
a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai -
the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard -
Nixon approved the use of American ground forces in Cambodia to fight alongside South Vietnamese troops -
office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. -
the attacks had little impact, beyond the additional death and destruction they caused. -
a resolution to limit the U.S. president's ability to initiate or escalate military actions. -
a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops". -
peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam