Vietnam War
Preston Figge and Chase Poole
Cold War
Containment
DMZ
Domino Theory
Draft
General William Westmoreland
My Lai Massacre
National Liberation Front
Tet Offensive
Viet Cong
Vietnamization
Most Important Events In Vietnam War
August 1950 — Truman sends first military advisers to Vietnam
May 1954 — North Vietnamese prevail at Dien Bien Phu
July 21, 1954 — Geneva Conference splits Vietnam at the 17th parallel
1961 — JFK initiates Operation Farm Gate and sends Green Berets to Vietnam
November 2, 1963 — deposed South Vietnamese President Diem is assassinated
June 1964 — William Westmoreland put in control of U.S. military forces
August 1964 — Gulf of Tonkin incident
1965-1968 — Operation Rolling Thunder airstrikes
1966 — Operation Van Buren at Phu Yen marks beginning of “search and destroy”
1968 — Tet offensive touches off widespread protests in the United States
November 1969 — news of My Lai massacre breaks
May1970 — Kent State tragedy
1971-1973 — U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam
April 21, 1975 — South Vietnamese President Thieu resigns
July 2, 1976 — North and South Vietnam unified under communist rule
Most Important
Second Most important
Third most important
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Chase's synopsis
Preston's Synopsis
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