microsoft power point - vietnam war timeline
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Vietnam War TimelineKim and Brandon
1954 - French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu
1955 – Ngo Dinh Diem ‘Elected’ as
president of South Vietnam
1957 – Vietminh start guerrilla war in
South Vietnam
1961 – Kennedy Pledges Extra ‘Aid’
1962 – 12,000 ‘advisers’ Strategic
Hamlet begins
1963 – Buddhist monks burn, Diem
and JFK killed
1964 – Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1965 – Operation Rolling Thunder
200,000 US Combat Troops
1967 – 500,000 US Troops
1968 – Tet Offensive Huge
Anti-war Demos, Nixon
Elected
1969 – Cambodia Bombed
‘Vietnamization’
1970 Kent State Uni
1971 My Lai Court Case, 140 000
Troops
1973 Cease-Fire, US Leaves
1975 NLF Capture Saigon
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