Timeline - Vietnam War

Vietnam: American Involvement 1954 1955 1957 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1973 1975

French defeated at Dien Bien Phu Ngo Dinh Diem ‘elected’ as president of South Vietnam Vietminh start guerrilla war in South Vietnam Kennedy pledges extra ‘aid’ 12,000 ‘advisers’, Strategic Hamlet begins Buddhist monks burn, Diem and JFK killed Gulf of Tonkin resolution Operation Rolling Thunder, 200 000 US combat troops 500 000 US troops Tet Offensive, huge antiwar demos, Nixon elected Cambodia bombed, ‘Vietnamization’ Kent State Uni My Lai court case, 140 000 troops Cease-fire, US leaves NLF capture Saigon

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