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Vietnam War Timeline

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    Geneva Accords

    It was a conference in which the former territories of France like Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
  • Assassination of Diem

    Assassination of Diem

    He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and then served as President of South Vietnam from 1955 until he was assassinated
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    The resolution gave the president the ability to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the United States' forces and prevent further aggression.
  • LBJ ordered 1st troops to Vietnam

    LBJ ordered 1st troops to Vietnam

    After the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, the first United States troops were deployed into Vietnam in 1965
  • Nixon’s Vietnamization policy

    Nixon’s Vietnamization policy

    The goal of this was to expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops
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    Tet Offensive

    a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre

    A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people women, children and old men in the village of My Lai
  • Nixon becomes President

    Nixon becomes President

    On January 26th, 1969 Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States
  • Nixon ordered troops to Cambodia

    Nixon ordered troops to Cambodia

    It was meant to intimidate North Vietnam by showing that he was a dangerous leader capable of anything.
  • Hard Hat Riot

    Hard Hat Riot

    It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike
  • Nixon goes to China

    Nixon goes to China

    The seven-day official visit to three Chinese cities was the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC; Nixon's arrival in Beijing ended 25 years of no communication or diplomatic ties between the two countries
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    Nixon’s Christmas bombing

    The bombing was a result of the failed negotiations between America and North Vietnam
  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords

    The Paris Peace Accords, the purpose was to come to an agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam
  • Nixon Resigns

    Nixon Resigns

    With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office
  • Saigon Falls

    Saigon Falls

    The Communist North Vietnamese had made their advance their advance on the South Vietnamese city of Saigon once this city fell the south Vietnamese surrendered and the north won the war.