vietnam war

By clare.jarecki

  • Vietminh defeat France

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Civil war breaks out between North and South Vietnam

  • Vietnam is largest recipient of US military aid

  • JFK is elected

  • Vietcong is destabilizing Diem's government by killing officials

    (Diem's leadership supported by USA)

  • Australia dispatches military advisers to Vietnam

  • Diem and Brother are murdered

    coup d'etat supported by USA/JFK

  • LBJ becomes president after Kennedy is assasinated

  • USS Maddox allegedly attacked at the Gulf of Tonkin

  • conscription for 20 year old males announced by Menzies

  • LBJ orders bombing of North Vietnam

  • Australian dispatches troops to Vietnam

  • Australia continues to dispatch troops, first conscript death

  • battle of Long Tan

  • tet offensive launched

    forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies.

  • My Lai massacre takes place

  • anti conscription movement grows to all sections of sociey

  • My Lai maccacre appeared in media

  • first and largest moratorium

  • PM John Gorton indicated that withdrawal of troops would begin

  • second moratorium

  • third moratorium

  • PM Gough Whitlam (labor) won election and abolished national service and brought remaining troops home

  • South Vietnam surrenders