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Eisenhower explains his "domino theory"
President Dwight D. Eisenhower invented one of the most famous cold war phrases when he suggests the fall of Indochina to the communist could create a "domino theory" effect in Southeast Asia. The domino theory dominated U.S. thinking about the Vietnam for the next decade. It was clear to many U.S. policymakers that the french were failing to attempt the re-establishing colonial control in Vietnam which they had lost in World War 2, when the Japanese took over control of the area. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution that the United States congress passed on August 7,1964 , in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The United States congress overwhelming approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving president Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose "communists aggression" in Southeast Asia. -
Operating Rolling Thunder begins
Operating Rolling Thunder was an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam war. U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military to pressure on North Vietnam's communist leader and also reduced their capacity to wage war against the U.S., supported government of South Vietnam. -
American Troops Level in 1966
The Selective Service System of the U.S. drafted 382,010 men into military services in the year of 1966, the highest total during the Vietnam War by comparison in 1962, only 82,060 men were drafted. The draft was a major source of opposition to the Vietnam War in the United States . -
My Lai massacre
The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam war mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were massacred by the U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. -
Johnson announces he will not run from re-election
Johnson was frustrated over the directions the Vietnam war was headed and his difficulty directing the U.S. intolerant with the U.S. congress inhibiting his management o the war. On the date of November 22,1963 Lyndon B. Johnson became president due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. -
Nixon wins the Election
Nixon wins the election in the year of 1968. The republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Because of the strong showing of third-party candidate George Wallace, neither Nixon nor Humphrey received more than 50 percent of the popular vote; Nixon beat Humphrey by less than 500,000 votes.
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Vietnimization strategy started
Vietnamization of the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "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.". -
Peace Talks Began in Paris
The Vietnam War produced many peace proposals and many rounds of peace talks. Some proposals for peace conducted publicity, some in secret through diplomatic communications or through "back channels". Throughout the years between o 1964 to 1972 saw at least five different peace proposals and their final - and some may say - failure - reveals much about nature o the Vietnam conflict and its chiefs combatants. -
Invasion of Cabodia
The Invasion of Cambodia was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War. -
Kent State student shot
Students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, conflict with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. When the Guardsmen shot and killed four students, the Kent State Shooting became the main point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. -
Paris Peace Accord signed
The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. The treaty included the governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, and the United States. -
American Involvement in Vietnam Ended
The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. -
Thousands fled Saigon
Refugees fled Vietnam by boat and ship after the Vietnam war.The number of boat people leaving Vietnam and arriving safely in another country totaled almost 800,000 between 1975 and 1995. Many of the refugees failed to survive the passage, facing danger from pirates, over-crowded boats, and storms. The boat people's first destinations were the Southeast Asian countries of British Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the people's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
