Key Dates Flashcards
Dien Bien Phu m/y
May 1954
Geneva Accords m/y
July 1954
American Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina (MAAGI) first trains South Vietnamese forces
1956
Year/m NLF formed
Dec 1959
Strategic Hamlet Program first
1962
Truman d
45-53
Eisenhower d
53-61
JFK d
61-63 (dies November 1963)
LBJ
63-69
Nixon
69-74
Ford
74-77
SEATO creation year
1955
NLF formation m/y
dec 1959
year HCM dies
1969
Flaming Dart + Rolling Thunder
Feb 1965
Robert McNamara resigns when, why, former label
november 1967 after giving a memorandum to LBJ asking to freeze troop levels, no longer supported war escalation, former ‘Hawk’
flexy sexy us phrase about US administration
“US administration decisions to 1968 were influenced by power geopolitics and US hegemony, exacerbated by global Cold War tensions”
tet dates
31 Jan-Feb 1968