Vietnam war Flashcards

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1957

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October - NV bombs SV

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1959

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March - NV declares war on SV
May - Construction of Ho Chi Minh trail begins
USA sends in military advisors

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1961

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Viet Cong successfully attack SV troops

US sends in more advisors and huey helicopters in

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1962

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Jan - Operation Ranch Hand & Agent Orange
Mar - Strategic Hamlet program (People didn’t want to leave ancestral land)
April - US sends in armoured personnel vehicles

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1963

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Jan - Battle of Ap Bac ()
Nov - Military coup in SV
Diem is assassinated

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1964

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June - Westmoreland put in charge of American forces (Notable for search-and-destroy missions)
Aug - Gulf of Tonkin (LBJ manipulated the Golf of Tonkin incident in order to get a blank cheque from congress)

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1965

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Feb Operation Flaming dart
Escalation begins:
Mar - Operation Rolling Thunder
200,000 US troops in Vietnam
Nov - Battle of La Drang
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1966

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SEATO troops arrive to help South Vietnam

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1968

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Tet Offensive begins, including Battle of Hue
Feb - Kronkite stops supporting American involvement in war
Mar - My Lai Massacre
May - US stops bombing NV and peace talks begin
June - Abrams replaces Westmoreland

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1969

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Sept - Ho dies replaced by Ton duc Thang

Nov - Policy of Vietnamisation begins

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1970

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Mar/Apr - NV, SV, and US become involved in Cambodia

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1971

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Pentagon papers were released (American public was outraged)

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1972

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Aug Last USA ground forces leave SV

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1973

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Jan - Paris Peace Accords are signed

Oct - Le Duc Tho refuses Nobel Peace Prize

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1975

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Apr - Operation frequent wind

30 April - Saigon falls to VC and NV

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1976

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2 July - Vietnam rejoins to form Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Failure of containment)