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basis for the United States strategy of containment, and the reason for entering the Vietnam War. -
the Geneva Agreements were signed. As part of the agreement, the French agreed to grab their troops from northern Vietnam. Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, pending elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country. -
Following the overthrow of his government by South Vietnamese military forces the day before, President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers. -
Johnson and his advisers ordered the U.S. military to launch Operation Rolling Thunder, a bombing campaign against the North. -
response to an alleged attack by North Vietnamese patrol boats on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, the U.S. Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to greatly escalate U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. -
A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population -
A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people, women, children and old men in the village of My Lai -
program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role -
around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. -
decision to launch American forces into Cambodia with the special objective of capturing COSVN, "the headquarters of the entire communist military operation in South Vietnam." -
The killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard. -
its purpose was to persuade the South Vietnamese to go along with an armistice to which they were violently opposed. -
he Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam. -
The War Powers Resolution is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
the takeover of the city by the Viet Cong two years later