The Vietnam Era

  • Declaring Independence

    Declaring Independence
    Economic
    Ho Chi Minh Declaring independence on Japan
    Freed Japanese from French colonial rule
    Political
  • Japanese Surrendered

    Japanese Surrendered
    Political
    Vietnam was free
  • Vietnam Divided

    Vietnam Divided
    Social
    Vietnam split into two different states
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Social
    Rosa parks refused to get up into another seat for a white man and was arrested
  • American Role Deepens

    American Role Deepens
    Social
    Diem ordered crackdown against his opponent
  • Diem Association

    Diem Association
    Vietnam
    Social
    South Vietnam became very corrupt
  • Civil rights act

    Civil rights act
    Social
    Discrimination Banned in public places
  • Protest Spread

    Protest Spread
    Political
    The protest spread because it started off with peace and broke out into violence
  • Law in Order

    Social
    Nixon promised to restore "Law and order" and win the Vietnamese
  • North Korea

    North Korea
    North Korean boats seize the US Pueblo, A navy ship
  • The Tet offensive

    The Tet offensive
    The US Vietnam
    social
    South Vietnam because a major lose in war
  • Martin Luther King

    Martin Luther King
    Martin Luther King,Jr., was shot and killed in Tennnesse, setting off a wave of riots across the country
  • United States Tensions

    Social
    Us began fighting eachother
  • Cambodia

    War spreads and leaves Cambodia to become an enemy
  • Man On Moon

    The man on the moon is a social event, Apollo 11 landed on the moon
  • Nixon Pursues a new course

    Social
    150,000 soilders left vietnam
  • The first Impeachment

    Social
    Nixon is impeached for spying illegally
  • President Nixon

    President Nixon
    Social
    President Nixon Ordered bomings on North Vietnamese after 12 days of consentrated
  • Capital of South Vietnam

    Political
    North Vietnam troops were near the capital of South Vietnam
  • North Vietnam war ends

    Social
    Ends because North Vietnam killed all South Vietnam soilders