Vietnam

Question 1

1954

Answer 1

Battle of Dien Bien Phu - French withdraw from Vietnam.

Question 2

1956

Answer 2

Ngo Dinh Diem refuses to hold elections

Question 3

1959

Answer 3

Ho Chi Minh begins to send troops and weapons to South Vietnam

Question 4

1961

Answer 4

JFK increases US involvement by sending advisors which ‘advise’ the AVRN how to fight/train them.

Question 5

1963

Answer 5

Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, sets fire to himself in Saigon in protest at South Vietnamese government

Question 6

1964

Answer 6

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Question 7

1965

Answer 7

Operation Rolling Thunder is launched and major increase in the amount of US troops in Vietnam

Question 8

1968

Answer 8

Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre

Question 9

1969

Answer 9

US opens secret talks with North Vietnam. Nixon’s ‘silent majority’ speech

Question 10

1970

Answer 10

US/South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia
New enquiry exposes truth about My Lai – Lt Calley’s trial begins
Kent State University shootings
Hard Hat riot and demonstrations

Question 11

1971

Answer 11

US/AVRN forces attack Laos

Question 12

1972

Answer 12

North Vietnamese Easter Offensive
Operation Linebacker begins
Start of formal peace negotiations

Question 13

1973

Answer 13

Paris Peace Accords

Question 14

1975

Answer 14

Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese

By the end of 1975, all of Vietnam is communist