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Increase of the US advisers
US President Harry Truman sent the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to Vietnam to assist the French in Vietnam. The President claimed they were not sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of $10 million worth of US military equipment to support the French in their effort to fight the Viet Minh forces. By 1953, aid increased dramatically to $350 million to replace old military equipment owned by the French. -
French Surrender
On May 7 of 1954, after 57 days of siege, the French positions collapsed. Although the defeat brought an end to French colonial efforts in Indochina, the United States joined the war soon after to help support South Vietnam. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was as new strategy implemented by Richard Nixon that was meant to end the war. The idea was to put all the military responsibilities on south Vietnam in an effort to get America out of the war. In 1973, the U.S. negotiated a treaty with the North Vietnamese, withdrew American combat troops and declared the Vietnamization process a success. -
Diem Repression 1957
Ngo Dinh Diem was the president of Vietnam. He denounced communists as being brutal and torturous. Diem and his police not only arrested and tortured current and former communists in Vietnam, but also their family members and others in their village whether they had communist connections. He did this to get rid of and destroy communism in Vietnam. -
First American Death
Maj. Dale R. Ruis and Master Sgt. Chester M. Ovnand where the first americans killed in the war efforts in Vietnam. After arriving in Vietnam to to advise and assist the military, they were killed by a guerrillas strike 20 miles north of Saigon. -
1st US combat Death
Tom Davis was the first US soldier to be killed in Combat death. We started sending all our soldiers to golf tonkin. Tom Daves from Tennessee was the first to go. Davis was working undercover, with no uniform, no no gun. He was then ambushed and killed on December 22, marking the first soldier to die in combat. -
Buddhist Monk Implosion
Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quang Duc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm -
Americas longest War
The Cold War we fought against the Soviet Union and its allies from the close of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Lasting nearly half a century, this war ended in the victory of a sort for the United States, even as its legacy continues to poison U.S. culture and foreign relations. For the Cold War left us with an enormous military-industrial-Congressional complex, to include nuclear forces capable of destroying the planet, which the U.S. continues to feed and even to enlarge. -
POW's experience in Hanoi
Hoa Lo Prison is a place where Americans were captured were kept as prisoners of war. Vietnamese did not regard the Americans as “prisoners of war” in a legal sense. The prisoners called it the “Hanoi Hilton.” Some of the of POWs stayed here even more than 5 years. The prisoners had bad living conditions and were fed little. They sometimes got beat up by the Vietnamese soldiers in charge of the prisoners. It operated as a POW prison from August 5, 1964, to March 29, 1973. -
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. During the spring of 1964, military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North, but at that time President Lyndon B. Johnson and his advisers feared that the public would not support an expansion of the war. By summer, however, they started pursuing the war more aggressively. -
Mass Protest
By 1965 a variety of people in the US had become active in a vocal movement to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. A large number of Americans felt that public protest against the war, while American soldiers were fighting it, was unpatriotic. The movement did greatly increase skepticism about the morality of American foreign policy and the purpose of sending American troops into combat. It also taught millions of Americans to exercise greater oversight of their nation’s foreign policy. -
Operation Rolling Thunder Approved
The bombing campaign, approved by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was designed to interdict North Vietnamese transportation routes in the southern part of North Vietnam and slow infiltration of personnel and supplies into South Vietnam. From 1965 to 1968, about 643,000 tons of bombs were dropped on North Vietnam. In July 1966, Rolling Thunder was expanded to include North Vietnamese ammunition dumps and oil storage facilities. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S. supported government of South Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and thus represented a major expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. -
My Lai
In one of the most horrific incidents of violence against civilians during the Vietnam War, a company of American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai in March 1968. As many as 500 people including women, children and the elderly were killed in the My Lai Massacre. In 1970, a U.S. Army board charged 14 officers of crimes related to the events at My Lai; only one was convicted. -
Ho Chi Minh
Was the leader of the north Vietnamese war. Ho was also a founder of the French communist party in 1920. Living in china, near the border of Vietnam, Ho helped organize the “Vietnam Revolutionary League”. Since he could not enter Vietnam, with the rise of being arrested he would send letters. The goal of the Revolutionary league was to help other Vietnamese nationalist living in exile. Once France declared they wanted to right, Ho was the elected leader. -
Congress votes to withdraw Troops
US congress passed a legislation that would force troops out of Vietnam. It gave troops 9 months to withdraw all US forces. Congress was worried that the president would not agree with the declaration. Congress came to the concussion that we should not be funding the war efforts and millitary in Vieatnam and needed to withdrw. -
Peace Talks in Paris
The Paris Peace Accords was a peace treaty signed to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. The treaty included the governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, and the United States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government. It ended direct U.S. military combat, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. However, the agreement was not ratified by the United States Senate. -
POW's Reliced
POW stands for prisoners of war, people captured and then listed as MIA to mark their disappearance. After the Paris Peace treaty in January of 1973 all US prisoners were released and brought home in operation homecoming. 591 US soldiers were released and put back in U.S authorities control. -
Saigon Falls
Also known as the liberation of Saigon was a takeover of south Vietnam's capital Saigon. American drew close to the borders and were aware that the presents of americans would be unwelcome. The county would not survive, and in a effort this statement was released by South Vietnam’s president, General Minh "We are here to hand over to you the power in order to avoid bloodshed." The county was quickly falling apart, and the power was transferred with little resistance. -
End Of War
On November 10, 1989 the Berlin wall came down which was a major symbol for the cold war. By mid-1990, many of the Soviet republics had declared their independence. On December 8, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Republic, formed the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.). After 45 years, the Cold War was over.
