chronology of vietnam with facts

Question 1

1945-1950

Answer 1

Japanese occupy vietnam

Question 2

pre 1945

Answer 2

French colonised indochina

Question 3

1946-1954

Answer 3

battle bien phu

French pushed out by Vietminh

Question 4

1954

Answer 4

geneva agreement

(split along the 17th parallel, general elections before 1956, south vietnam ruled by dieh diem, north vietnam ruled by- ho chi minh)

Question 5

1955

Answer 5

die diem rigged the election

landslide victory of 98%

Question 6

1954

Answer 6

eisenhower’s domino theory

Question 7

vietcong formed

Answer 7

December 1960

National liberation front, supported and supplied by Ho Chi Minh, used guerrilla warfare

Question 8

1961

Answer 8

JFK becomes president

Question 9

quang duc self immolation

Answer 9

1963

Question 10

diem killed in a coup

Answer 10

1963

Question 11

gulf of tonkin incident ( gulf of tonkin resolution)

Answer 11

1964

Tonkin resolution- gave LBJ a blank check, operation rolling thunder started, more boots on the ground 500,000 by 1969

Question 12

1961

Answer 12

strategic hamlet programme

Question 13

draft burning

Answer 13

1964

Question 14

operation rolling thunder

Answer 14

1965

operation rolling thunder - ran from Feb 1965 to Nov 1969, meant to only last 8 weeks, 800,000 tonnes of bombs dropped

Question 15

tet offensive

Answer 15

1968

Tet offensive- 84,000 Vietcong attacked the south, the US embassy was taken, took 4 weeks to regain Hue

Question 16

my lai

Answer 16

1968
( my lai massacre- massacre of villagers in My Lai by Charlie Company when only 3 weapons were found. This furthered Americans worries about the Vietnam war because if this had been covered up what else had been)

Question 17

when was my lai revealed to the public

Answer 17

1969

Question 18

bombing of Cambodia (operation menu)

battle of hamburger hill

Answer 18

may 1969

Question 19

25,000 troops withdrawn

Answer 19

june 1969

(Vietnamisation- policy by Nixon to train ARVN so he could remove American soldiers

Question 20

washington anti war protest

Answer 20

august 1969

Question 21

final public peace talks

Answer 21

december 1969

Question 22

secret peace talks

Answer 22

1970

Question 23

us invades cambodia

Answer 23

april 1970

Question 24

kent state massacre

Answer 24

may 1970

Question 25

invasion of laos | operation menu

Answer 25

1971

Question 26

nixon visits china

Answer 26

february 1972

Question 27

operation line backer

Answer 27

march 1972

Question 28

north vietnam proposes a ceasefire USA accepts

Answer 28

october 1972

Question 29

paris peace accords

Answer 29

January 1973 ( Paris Peace Accords- ended the Vietnam war for the US, war cost $140 billion and was costing$30 billion a year, 300 US soldiers died every week overall 58,000 US soldiers died)

Question 30

last US troops leave

Answer 30

march 1973

Question 31

fall of saigon and all of vietnam is communist

Answer 31

1975