Vietnam Timeline

Question 1

1864

Answer 1

Vietnam under France

Question 2

1887

Answer 2

Indochina

Question 3

1941

Answer 3

Hoe chi Minh organised Vietminh

Question 4

1945

Answer 4

Viêt-minh seize power

Emperor Bao Dai abdicates

Question 5

1946

Answer 5

Guerrilla war against France

• first indochina war - aided by China
• Bai Dai with France

Question 6

1952

Answer 6

Dwight Eisenhower

• policy of nation building

Question 7

1954

Answer 7

SEATO
17th parallel
-Viêt-cong in south

Geneva agreement
-Laos and Cambodia independent
Domino theory

Question 8

1955

Answer 8

MAAG

• train sorry military
• official beginning of the war

Question 9

1961

Answer 9

NLF formed

John F Kennedy
-first advisers(400/ two helicopter companies)

Question 10

1962

Answer 10

1500 advisers

Question 11

1963

Answer 11

Diem overthrows and killed

Kennedy assassinated

• > Lyndon B Johnson
• policy of escalation
• bombing of north

Question 12

1964

Answer 12

Gulf of tonkin
-Increase US involvement

230 000 servicemen

Question 13

1965

Answer 13

165 000 servicemen

-operation rolling thunder

Peace movement

Question 14

1966

Answer 14

Big build up

Question 15

1967

Answer 15

500 000 servicemen

Question 16

1968

Answer 16

End of rolling thunder

Jan 31- tet offensive

May 10- peach talks begin for 5 years

Question 17

1969

Answer 17

Richard M Nixon

• vietnamisation
• 25 000 troops withdraw and train SV

3 September- Ho Chi Minh dies

Question 18

1972

Answer 18

Deep penetration bombing

29 December- end of bombing

Question 19

1973

Answer 19

Paris peace accords
- usa our within 60 days

Jan- cease fire
March- US left

Question 20

1974

Answer 20

Nixon registration

Watergate scandal

Question 21

1975

Answer 21

30 April- Saigon fell to NV

Vietnam one country