vietnam war timeline

Question 1

WW2

Answer 1

Japan Rules over Vietnam

Question 2

1946-1954

Answer 2

Indochina War

Question 3

1954 (3 events)

Answer 3

Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Agreement
Eisenhower uses the term domino theory for the first time.

Question 4

October 1955

Answer 4

Diem “wins” early election

Question 5

December 1960

Answer 5

Vietcong is formed

Question 6

1960

Answer 6

Students for a democratic society formed

Question 7

January 1961

Answer 7

JFK becomes president.

Question 8

1961

Answer 8

JFK increased advisors and involvement.

Question 9

1963 (2 events)

Answer 9

Thich Quang Duc act of protest (self immolation)
Diem killed

Question 10

1964

Answer 10

First large scale draft burning

Question 11

August 1964 (2 events)

Answer 11

Gulf of Tonkin incident
Tonkin resolution

Question 12

1965

Answer 12

Operation Rolling Thunder

Question 13

1968 (2 events)

Answer 13

Tet Offensive
My Lai Massacre

Question 14

1969 (2 events)

Answer 14

My Lai revealed to public
Washington anti war protest

Question 15

January 1969

Answer 15

Peace talks begin

Question 16

May 1969 (2 events)

Answer 16

Bombing of Cambodia
Battle of Hamburger Hill

Question 17

June 1969

Answer 17

25,000 troops withdrawn

Question 18

December 1969

Answer 18

Final public peace talks

Question 19

Febuary 1970

Answer 19

Secret peace talks resume

Question 20

April 1970

Answer 20

US invades Cambodia

Question 21

May 1970

Answer 21

Kent State shooting

Question 22

Febuary 1971

Answer 22

US invade Laos

Question 23

January 1972

Answer 23

Nixon reveals secret peace talks have been taking place

Question 24

March 1972

Answer 24

US retaliates with a bombing campaign after the North attacks the south.

Question 25

May 1972

Answer 25

Nixon visits the USSR

Question 26

October 1972

Answer 26

North Vietnam proposes a ceasefire and the US accepts. They supply the south with $1 billion of military equipment.

Question 27

January 1973

Answer 27

Paris Peace Accords

Question 28

March 1973

Answer 28

last US troops leave

Question 29

December 1974

Answer 29

North attacks the South. Us government votes not to get involved

Question 30

April 1975

Answer 30

Saigon is take over and communism takes over Vietnam