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President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the domino theory when he suggested that the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. -
Geneva Accords, collection of documents issuing from the Geneva Conference which was held to resolve several problems in Asia. -
Diem served as a prime minister and first president of South Vietnam. Diem's heavy-handed tactics against the Vietcong insurgency deepened his government's unpopularity. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Lyndon B. Johnson commenced Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965, continuing through 1967.Johnson also authorized the first of many deployments of ground combat troops to Vietnam. -
The My Lai massacre was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by United States troops. -
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on the cities and outposts of South Vietnam. -
A program designed to shift the responsibility of the war from the U.S. to the South Vietnamese, allowing the United States to gradually withdraw its troops from Vietnam. -
Following months of secret U.S. bombings on Communist bases, President Richard Nixon ordered U.S. ground troops to invade Cambodia. -
Students protested the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, as a result, Guardsmen shot and killed four students. -
Together with Wall Street office workers, the hard hats confronted anti-war demonstrators on the streets of Manhattan. -
President Richard Nixon presented a massive bombing campaign to break the stalemate. For nearly two weeks, American bombers pounded North Vietnam. -
The United States, South and North Vietnam, and Vietcong signed “An Agreement Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam”. It took place in Paris. -
The War Powers Resolution is a federal law intended to keep the U.S. president's power in check when committing the U.S. to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army, effectively ending the Vietnam War.