1945 :
Ho Chi Minh Creates Provisional Government.
Ho Chi Minh Declares Independence of Vietnam.
British Forces Land in Saigon to return country to French occupation and control.
1946 :
Negotiations Between French and Vietminh Breakdown.
Democratic Republic of Vietnam launches its first consorted attack against the French occupation.
1947 :
Vietminh Move North of Hanoi.
French General Etienne Valluy attempts and fails to wipe out the Vietminh resistence to French Occupation.
1949 :
Elysee Agreement Signed.
1950 :
Chinese, Soviets, Offer to Support Vietminh.
United States sends $15 million dollars in military aid to the French for the continued occupation.
1954 :
Battle of Dienbienphu : 40,000 armed Vietminh lay seige to the French garrison at Dienbienphu.
In order to justify continued occupation of Vietnam, Eisenhower Cites "Domino Theory".
French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu.
Vietminh General Ta Quang Buu and French General Henri Delteil sign Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Vietnam.
The United States does not accept the agreement, pushes for continued occupation.
1955 :
Diem Rejects Geneva Accords.
Diem becomes puppet of United States.
1956 :
French Leave Vietnam.
US Training South Vietnamese.
1957 :
Guerrillas assassinate more than 400 South Vietnamese officials of puppet regime.
Bombings Rock Saigon.
1959 :
Weapons Moving Along Ho Chi Minh Trail.
US Occupation forces Killed.
Diem Orders Crackdown on Dissidents.
1960 :
North Vietnam Imposes Military Conscription To Fight Occupation.
Diem Survives Coup Attempt.
Hanoi forms National Liberation Front for South Vietnam.
1961 :
Battle of Kienhoa Province.
1962 :
US Military Employs Agent Orange.
Diem Palace Bombed in Coup Attempt.
1963 :
Battle of Ap Bac.
Buddhists Protest Against Diem.
With approval of the United States, operatives within the South Vietnamese military overthrow Diem.
He is killed.
1964 :
General Nguyen Khanh Seizes Power in Saigon.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident : Three North Vietnamese PT boats allegedly fire torpedoes at the USS Maddox.
It has since been revealed, the incident never happened.
Was part of a propoganda campaign used by the United States government.
National Liberation Front Attack Bienhoa Air Base.
1965 :
Sustained American bombing raids of North Vietnam, dubbed "Operation Rolling Thunder".
U.S. Marines Arrive at Danang.
American forces clash with North Vietnamese in the Ia Drang Valley.
US Troop Levels Top 200,000.
Vietnam "Teach-In" Broadcast to Nation's Universities.
1966 :
B-52s Bomb North Vietnam.
South Vietnam Government Troops Take Hue and Danang.
US President Lyndon Johnson meets South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky.
Veterans from World Wars I and II, and Korean war, stage anti-war protest rally.
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) issues a report claiming that the US military draft places "a heavy discriminatory burden on minority groups and the poor."
1967 :
Operation Cedar Falls Begins.
Martin Luther King Speaks Out Against War.
1968 :
Sihanouk Allows Pursuit of Vietcong into Cambodia.
North Vietnamese Launch Tet Offensive.
Battle for Hue.
Westmoreland requests 206,000 More Troops.
Paris Peace Talks Begin.
1969 :
Nixon Begins Secret Bombing of Cambodia.
Ho Chi Minh Dies at Age 79.
Massive Antiwar Demonstration in DC.
1970 :
Sihanouk Ousted in Cambodia.
National Guardsmen open fire on a crowd of student antiwar protesters.
Kissinger and Le Duc Begin Secret Talks.
1971 :
Nixon Announces Plans to Visit China.
1972 :
Nixon Cuts Troop Levels.
Secret Peace Talks Revealed.
B-52s Bomb Hanoi and Haiphong.
1973 :
Cease-fire Signed in Paris.
End of Draft Announced.
Last American Troops Leave Vietnam.
Hearings on Secret Bombings Begin.
1974 :
Report Cites Damage to Vietnam Ecology.
1975 :
North Forces Capture Phuoc Long Province.
Hue Falls to North.
North Vietnamese initiate the Ho Chi Minh Campaign, to "liberate" Saigon.
Ford Calls Vietnam War "Finished".
Last Americans Evacuate as Saigon Freed.
North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin accepts the surrender of South.
1976-80 :
Pham Van Dong Heads Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Carter Issues Pardon to Draft Evaders.
Vietnam Granted Admission to United Nations.
Tet Offensive
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Tonkin Gulf Vietnam
The Vietnam War Draft
Vietnam War Protests
B52 Bombings
Official Campaigns of the War
Casualties
Draftees
Race and Ethnic Background Of American Forces
Socio-Economic Status of Forces
Prisoners Of War
Cu Chi Tunnels
Ho Chi Minh Biography
Books On Vietnam War
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