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The Domino Theory refers to process where a country, neighboring communism, falls, it would then resort itself to communism. -
In this document, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam. Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, pending elections within two years to solidify a government and elect officials. -
Assassinated in Ho Chi Minh, Diem was deemed to be inefficient, his eradication would suffice for the time being. -
This authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace. -
This marked the first deployment of troops into Vietnam and arguably kicked the war off. -
The Tet Offensive consisted of multiple attacks by the North Vietnamese government. The attacks were carried out at South Vietnamese cities, military installations, and villages throughout South Vietnam.
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A group of American soldiers killed majority of villagers in the Sơn Tịnh District. -
Nixon believed that the plan was necessary as a pre-emptive strike to hold off North Vietnamese attacks from South Vietnam. -
This was the shooting of unarmed college students who where protesting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war. When protests turned to riots, there was bloodshed. -
Many were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War as a whole, following announcement of the U.S. invasion in neutral Cambodia. Some construction workers carried U.S. flags and took to the streets. -
Richard Nixon was highly criticized for bombing a foreign country on a the most commonly celebrated holiday when focused on peace and selflessness. -
In the War Powers Act of 1973, congress passed the War Powers Resolution of 1973, intending to limit the President's authority to wage war and reasserted its authority over foreign wars. -
the Paris Peace Accords were intended to finally end the Vietnam War, which had meaninglessly claimed thousands of American soldier's lives. -
This became a symbol of the war's futility. The US was forced to abandon its embassy in the city and evacuate more than 7,000 US citizens because of the Vietcong's ambush of South Vietnam. -
Vietnamization was a way to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War by creating a program to expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese soldiers and assign to them their own combat role, while simultaneously shaving the number of U.S. soldiers down.