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Vietnam Timeline
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1874
France takes control of Vietnam
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President and US Military Presence: 1941
Roosevelt
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1941
Ho Chi Minh founded the Viet Minh
To fight the Japanese
Popular leader Not anti-American
Nationalist/land reform
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President and US Military Presence: 1945
Truman
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1945
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam Independent
US and Vietnamese fought against Japanese
Quotes US Declaration of IndependenceAsks the US for aid five times
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1950
United States gives direct economic and military aid to the French
War begins between Vietminh and France Domino Theory/Keep Alliance with French
In total $4 billion to the French
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President and US Military Presence: 1954
Eisenhower
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1954
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Last Battle of French/Vietminh War
Vietminh won
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1954
Geneva Conference Vietnam divided at the 17th parallel. Elections
in two years Cease fire
Neither side would form alliances with other countries
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1954
US Support Ngo Dinh Diem as leader of South Vietnam
Western Educated. Diem was Catholic. Vietnam a country of Buddhists.
Corrupt Two US advisors
worked closely with Diem.
Strongly Anti-Communist.
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1956
Diem cancels electionsHe knew that Ho Chi Minh would win.He broke the Geneva Conventions.
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President and US Military Presence: 1960
900 US
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1960
National Liberation Front a.k.a. Viet Cong
South Vietnamese who hate Diem
Supported by peasants
Civil War breaks out
Use Guerilla/terror tactics
Viet Cong Solider
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President and US Military Presence: 1963
Kennedy
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1963
Buddhists Riots in Hue
Diem outlawed Buddhists flags
Buddhists protested this and were shot
A few monks lit themselves on fire- Made Diem look bad
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President and US Military Presence: 1963
16,000 US
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1963
Diem Overthrown and Assassinated Diem received millions in aid, yet his country was
bankrupt Unpopular and corrupt US supported a military coup Diem & brother killed. Unwilling/able to change
conditions that led to popularity communism/NLF
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1963
Kennedy Assassinated
Johnson swears he will not “lose” Vietnam
Viet Cong are already assassinating US advisors
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President and US Military Presence: 1964
Johnson 184,300 US
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1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Johnson claimed that two ships were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin
Congress gave Johnson a “blank check” in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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President and US Military Presence: 1965
200,000 US
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1965
Operation Rolling Thunder
Viet Cong attacked a US airfield in South Vietnam
US begins bombing N. Vietnam. Continued for three years.
Bomb bases, roads, railroads & Ho Chi Minh trail
Start sending ground troops
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President and US Military Presence: 1968
540,000 US
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1968
Tet Offensive (Vietnamese New Year)
The VC/NVA took control of major cities in S. Vietnam
The US mainstream started questioning the war
The US retook major cities but damage was done
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President and US Military Presence: 1969
Nixon
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1969
Secret Bombing of Cambodia Bombed communist strongholds Continued to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Secret bombing Of Cambodia: Sites indicated In Red
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President and US Military Presence: 1969
484,000 US
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1969
My Lai Massacre March 16, 1968 Search and
destroy mission 350 civilians
killed by US army division
Became public knowledge in 1969
My Lai Massacre Monument
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1969
Anti-War Demonstrations After Tet, mainstream
US against war College campuses
center of protest movement- biggest at Columbia U where students occupied President’s office
Marches, teach-ins, burning draft cards, jail, leaving country…
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1970
Vietnamization
Advisors said it would take 8 yrs to win the war
Trained and fund S. Vietnamese troops to take over
Allowed US troops to begin to come home
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President and US Military Presence: 1970
335,000 US
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1970
Kent State A protest against
the invasion of Cambodia
Burned down ROTC building
National Guard fired on crowd
Four students killed, one paralyzed for life
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President and US Military Presence: 1971
184,000 US
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1971
Pentagon Papers Defense Dept. employee Daniel Ellsburg leaked
top secret document to the NY Times and Wash. Post
Revealed Government was lying about war
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1973
Last Troops Leave Vietnam After a massive bombing campaign in the
North US turned the war over to South. (Paris Peace Accords)
Symbolized our inability to defeat the Communists
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President and US Military Presence: 1975
Ford
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1975
Last Americans leave Saigon during the early morning
The North took over Saigon The Civil War was over The Communist won
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More than 58,000 US soldiers died $150 billion Over 2 million Southeast Asians died Equivalent of 650 Hiroshimas dropped