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Kennedy started to increase his military advisers in Vietnam. The number of active advisers jumped from 600 to 16,000.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed President Johnson to take all necessary actions to repel any armed attacks against the United States.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was the steady bombing of a couple hundred mile long trail for about 3 years. They wanted to make sure that the Vietcong couldn't use the trail to transport military supplies.
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The election of 1968 was the election of Richard Nixon. His main slogan was "Peace with Honor".
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The Tet Offensive was a series of attacks by the North Vietnamese against the South Vietnamese.
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The My Lai Massacre was a massacre that was brought on by US soldiers. The US soldiers killed almost all of the innocent South Vietnamese in the village.
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The Kent State Massacre was an event that happened Ohio. 4 people were shot by the national guard while protesting.
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The 26th Amendment was ratified in March of 1971 stating that the state and federal government cannot use age to deny citizens that are 18 or older the right to vote.
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The Pentagon Papers were a collection of the US's political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 with the hope of the Vietnam war ending.
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The Paris Peace Accords was a peace treaty signed in 1973 to end the war and bring peace into Vietnam.
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The South Vietnamese started to push the Vietcong and North Vietnamese into Laos and other western countries like Cambodia.
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The Fall of Saigon was the capturing of South Vietnam's capital Saigon by the Vietcong and the Peoples Army of Vietnam.
