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draft
the draft start sometime in 1940 i coudnt find a date but they had it for the war to pull more men in and they still have it in and have every 18 year old men sighn up and pull when they need them -
Dwight Eisenhower
After the Geneva Accords were signed between the French and Communist Viet Minh leading to a partition of Vietnam, Eisenhower decided to create the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) -
geneva conference
The Geneva Accords creates a cease fire for the peaceful withdrawal of the French from Vietnam and provides a temporary boundary between North and South Vietnam -
war started
the war started from the north communist invaded the south vietnam trying to take it oover -
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John F. Kennedy
he had more advisers and machinery but not troops were sent to South Vietnam. everyone that was alive at the time know what they were doing in 1963 when he was shot -
Lyndon Johnson
In 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred and its resolution gave Johnson more powers to wage the war in Vietnam. He was the President who ordered the bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder and sent the first combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965 after an attack of Viet Cong on U.S air base in Pleiku -
Tonkin
In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. -
rolling thunder
A sustained U.S. aerial bombing campaign of North Vietnam begins called rolling thunder -
first gorund troops
president Johnson order the first set of ground troops to help south vietnam -
Tet offensive
North Vietnamese join forces with the Viet Cong to launch the Tet Offensive, attacking around 100 South Vietnamese cities and towns. -
vietnamization
was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end the U.S. involvement in the war and expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops -
Richard Nixon
Nixon started the so-called vietnamization policy in 1969. During his years in office, he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia in an attempt to destroy Communist -
draft lottery
On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. These lotteries occurred during the draft -
kent state
Four student demonstrators shot dead at Kent State University 280,000 US troops in Vietnam; secret peace talks held in Paris; large scale anti-war demonstrations throughout USA -
26th amendment
prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right of US citizens eighteen years of age or older to vote on account of age -
spring offesive
it was a massive asselt from north vietnam on the south the remaining u.s. force and south vietnamees fought back -
peace talks
the talk produced a cease fire agremeant and the last u.s. troops left in march -
withdrawn
U.S. with drew the troop from Vietnam -
Gerald Ford
Aid funds for South Vietnam was significantly cut off during his years. Although it had been promised by the Nixon administration, Congress forbade further U.S. involvement in Vietnam -
surrenders
south vietnam surrenders to cummunist -
unveil
Vietnam Veterans Memorial unveiled in Washington DC
