Vietnam War TimelineKim and Brandon

1954 - French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu

1955 – Ngo Dinh Diem ‘Elected’ as

president of South Vietnam

1957 – Vietminh start guerrilla war in

South Vietnam

1961 – Kennedy Pledges Extra ‘Aid’

1962 – 12,000 ‘advisers’ Strategic

Hamlet begins

1963 – Buddhist monks burn, Diem

and JFK killed

1964 – Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1965 – Operation Rolling Thunder

200,000 US Combat Troops

1967 – 500,000 US Troops

1968 – Tet Offensive Huge

Anti-war Demos, Nixon

Elected

1969 – Cambodia Bombed

‘Vietnamization’

1970 Kent State Uni

1971 My Lai Court Case, 140 000

Troops

1973 Cease-Fire, US Leaves

1975 NLF Capture Saigon