Vietnam Timeline

Dien Bien Phu : 1954 Geneva Conf. 1955 – Strategic hamlet- 1962
partition 18th parallel Battle of Ap Bac- 1962
Eisenhower pledges aid as result of
2nd January
domino theory + financial aid

Escalation in troop
numbers-1968. Tet
Offensive- 30 January
Operation Rolling
1968 – 23 September Anti-War March in Tonkin Gulf + Tonkin
Thunder- 2 March 1965
1968. Nixon elected-1968 New York-1967 Gulf Resolution- August
– 1 November 1968
November 5th. My Lai 7th 1964
Massacre-16 March 1968

Incursions into Cambodia-

1970 Operation
Vietnamisation- Nov 3
Linebacker-9 May
1969 Kent State University 1972 – 23 October
massacre-1970 May 1972

Saigon captured by the

North Vietnamese- April Paris Peace Conference-
30, 1975 1972 - 1973.