Vietnam Dates

Question 1

Geneva Peace Conference held where it is agreed to divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel

Answer 1

1954

Question 2

America help Ngo Dinh Diem to set up the Republic of South Vietnam

Answer 2

1955

Question 3

The National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Vietcong) is set up

Answer 3

1960

Question 4

Kennedy is assassinated; LBJ takes over

Answer 4

1963

Question 5

North Vietnamese boats open fire on US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. LBJ is granted permission by Congress to enter into a full scale war against North Vietnam

Answer 5

August 1964

Question 6

3, 500 marines and combat troops (rather than advisors) come ashore. America was at war in Vietnam

Answer 6

1965

Question 7

Ho Chi Minh trail is created to carry supplies down to South Vietnam

Answer 7

1959

Question 8

Operation Rolling Thunder is launched - a huge bombing campaign against North Vietnam

Answer 8

1965

Question 9

The Tet Offensive takes America by surprise

Answer 9

1968

Question 10

The USA begins its policy of ‘Vietnamisation’ (a policy to withdraw US troops from South Vietnam)

Answer 10

1969

Question 11

Ceasefire signed in Paris. The last US troops leave Vietnam

Answer 11

1973

Question 12

South Vietnam falls to the Communists - the Americans had failed. US officials are evacuated by helicopter.

Answer 12

1975

Question 13

France withdraws from Vietnam

Answer 13

1954