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Eisenhower makes his 'Domino Theory' speech when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia -
The French agreed to back out of Vietnam, and Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th Parallel
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The president of South Vietnam was arrested and assassinated in a successful coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh. -
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing LBJ to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia -
LBJ sends a troop of marines to Vietnam in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. These were the first troops to be sent to Vietnam -
A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
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A group of American soldiers committed acts of violence against the people of the village of My Lai - old men, women, and children - killing most of them. -
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 Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops". It resulted in the 1973 US withdrawal of Vietnam. -
The U.S. was motivated by the desire to buy time for its withdrawal from Southeast Asia, to protect its ally in South Vietnam, and to prevent the spread of communism to Cambodia. -
Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. This resulted in a student-led strike which forced the temporary closure of schools all across America. -
A group of angered union workers stormed a protest affiliated with the student strike of 1970 -
After the breakdown of the peace talks with North Vietnam, Nixon ordered bombings which ended when NV agreed to resume the talks. -
The accords included an immediate cease-fire, the withdrawal of all American military personnel, the release of all prisoners of war, and an international force to keep the peace. -
The act intended to limit the President's authority to wage war and reasserted its authority over foreign wars. President Nixon vetoed the bill. -
The Vietcong takes over Saigon, forcing the US to abandon the embassy and evacuate over 7k people