• ho chi mihn

    ho chi mihn
    ho chi mihn declares vietnams independence .this allows him to go to war.
  • Period: to

    the war

  • helper

    helper
    The Viet Minh receive military advisors and weapons from China.This helped vietnam alot with out this ,maybe we could have won the war?
  • pay back

    The French suffer a decisive defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.The french did get off vietnam after awile.
  • our new president

    our new president
    South Vietnam declares itself the Republic of Vietnam, with new and elected Ngo Dinh Diem, who became president.
  • this is bad

    the Viet Cong, is established in South Vietnam.
  • thank JFK for this order

    President John F. Kennedy orders more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war against the Vietcong guerrillas.
  • we got hit once

    North Vietnamese attack two U.S. destroyers sitting in international water for reason.
  • again !!!!!!!!!??????!!!!!!!

    then again north vietnam attacked us we will get them back.
  • Atomic test

    Atomic test
    China, North Vietnam's neighbor and ally, successfully tests an atomic bomb.
  • rolling thunder

    rolling thunder
    A sustained U.S. aerial bombing campaign of North Vietnam begins A.K.A operation rolling thunder :p get wrecked.
  • get rid of the the viecong

    American Special Forces camp is overrun by a full Vietcong regiment. U.S. air attacks
  • sucesuful attack

    Heavy fighting near Con Thien kills nearly 1,300 North Vietnamese troops
  • autumn

    Communist forces are building up for the Tet Offensive, 200 officials are arrested in a crackdown on opponents of the Tet strategy.
  • our ruthlessnes :(

    U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the town of Mai Lai
  • a switch up

    General William Westmoreland, who had been in charge of the U.S. troops in Vietnam, is replaced by General Creighton kind sucks for that job to be taken from you.
  • merced by the viecong

    Two days before the U.S. presidential election, Vietcong mortars shell Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon. Four Americans are killed, 76 wounded.
  • a dicussion

    In Paris, peace talks between the North Vietnamese and the Americans breakdown.
  • it is all over

    Hue, South Vietnam's third largest city, falls to the North Vietnamese Army.