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Geneva Accords
The Geneva Conference, intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War, was a conference involving several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It resulted in Vietnam being split on the 17th parallel. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Assassination of Diem
Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and then served as President of South Vietnam from 1955 until he was assassinated. It was the beginning of the end of South Vietnam as instability was abundant afterwards -
LBJ ordered 1st troops to Vietnam
Under the authority of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the United States first deployed troops to Vietnam in 1965 in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It was the beginning of a long and grueling war. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet offensive of 1968, also called the general offensive and uprising of Tet Mau Than was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was a military success for the Americans despite the media portrayal -
My Lai Massacre
the murder of 500 civillians by the U.S. Army in what would come to be known as the My Lai Massacre. It was a massive blow to the credit of the military and caused protests across the U.S. -
Nixon’s Christmas bombing
The bombing of Cambodia was part of Nixon's "madman theory" that was meant to intimidate North Vietnam by showing that he was a dangerous leader capable of anything. -
Nixon Becomes President
The presidency of Richard Nixon began at noon EST on January 20, 1969, when Richard Nixon was inaugurated as 37th President of the United States. He got the presidency due to a divide in the democratic votes -
Nixon ordered troops to Cambodia
He announced his decision to launch American forces into Cambodia with the special objective of capturing COSVN, "the headquarters of the entire communist military operation in South Vietnam. It caused a mass of protests across the century -
Nixon’s Vietnamization policy
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role. This was vital to easing tensions in America by showing they were taking an active role in reducing their impact on the war -
Hard Hat Riot
The Hard Hat Riot occurred on May 8, 1970, in New York City. It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. -
Nixon goes to China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of diplomacy with China -
Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973. It was the U.S.'s exit from the war and ensured the fall of South Vietnam. -
Nixon Resigns
With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. It added even more instability in the country that desperately needs it -
Saigon Falls
The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong. It was a critical point in the war as the North Vietnam picked up momentum