Vietnam Dates Flashcards
When did the French withdraw in Vietnam?
1954
When was the Strategic Hamlet Program?
1962
- Built new villages to house locals away from Vietcong to prevent conscription
- Made US unpopular, as they didn’t want to be moved and didn’t have enough necessities
When was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
1964
-allowed US to invade Vietnam
When was Operation Rolling Thunder?
February 1965
-bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail
When was the Tet Offensive?
1968
-Led by North Vietnamese and VC. Over 100 cities and US bases in South Vietnam were attacked
When was the Attack on Cambodia?
1970
-Nixon sent US troops to Cambodia to stop North Vietnamese from helping Cambodia’s communists
When was the Attack on Laos?
1971
-US gave air support to a South Vietnamese invasion of Laos, to stop the spread of Communism there
When was the major bombing of North Vietnam?
1972
-heavy air raids to weaken the war industry
When was the My Lai Massacre?
1968
-US soldiers killed at least 347 women, children, and elders
When was the Kent State University shootings?
May 1970
When was Nixon’s silent majority speech?
3 November 1969
When was the Paris Peace Agreement?
1973
-US would withdraw
