key events Flashcards
1
Q
Viet Minh defeat the french at Bien Phu, vietnam divided into north and south
A
1954
2
Q
Diem cancels elections
A
1955
3
Q
Formation of the viet cong
A
1960
4
Q
JFK sends more advisers
A
1961
5
Q
strategic hamlet program
A
1962
6
Q
buddhists protests, diem overthrown and killed
A
1963
7
Q
gulf of tonkin incident
A
1964
8
Q
first US soldiers land in south vietnam (rolling thunder)
A
1965
9
Q
Tet offensive
Mai Lai Massacre
Johnson resigns
A
1968
10
Q
Vietnamization
death of Ho chi Minh
My Lai massacre revealed
A
1969
11
Q
Invasion of cambodia
Kent state shootings
A
1970
12
Q
NVA invade south vietnam
operation linebacker
formal peace talks begin
A
1972
13
Q
paris peace accords
A
1973
14
Q
fall of saigon
collapse of south vietnam
A
1975
