![]() ![]() One of the offensives chief targets was the city of Hue. May 4, 1970: Four days after Nixon announced the expansion of the war into Cambodia, four students at Kent State are shot by National Guardsmen during a protest. John Spencer and Jayson Geroux 11.04.21 in January 1968, North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a series of coordinated attacks aimed at demonstrating to the governments in Washington and Saigon that continuing the war was futile. 3, 1969: Nixon goes on television to call for national solidarity on the Vietnam War effort, appealing to a “silent majority” to support his policies. 15, 1969: The first Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a series of mass demonstrations across the United States, take place a second happens on Nov. 5, 1968: Nixon is elected president, promising to end the war in Vietnam. March 31, 1968: Johnson announces he will not run for re-election. March 16, 1968: Over the course of four hours, American soldiers kill more than 500 unarmed civilians in and around the hamlet of My Lai. 31, 1968: During the Tet Offensive, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launch surprise attacks against targets throughout South Vietnam.įebruary 1968: In the ancient imperial capital of Hue, communist forces execute at least 2,800 people, mostly South Vietnamese civilians. Army and Marines face relentless onslaughts from North Vietnamese. Summer 1967 to Spring 1968: During a series of “border battles” in the remote locations of Dak To, Con Thien and Khe Sanh, U.S. 21, 1967: Hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters gather for demonstrations in New York’s Central Park and in Washington. After commanding the 101st Airborne Division from 1958 to 1960, he was made superintendent at West Point. 14-18, 1965: In the Ia Drang Valley, American troops fight their first large scale battles against the North Vietnamese Army.Īpril 15 and Oct. In December 1956 he was promoted to major general at 42 years old, he was then the youngest person holding that rank in the U.S. March 8, 1965: First Marines land in Danang. 2-4, 1964: Two supposed incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin lead Johnson to seek congressional approval for direct U.S. ![]() 22, 1963: Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson is sworn in as president.Īug. ![]() 1-2, 1963: President Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu are murdered during a coup by dissident generals of the South Vietnamese army. June 11, 1963: Self immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in Saigon sparks outrage around the world and brings attention to the developing conflict. 20, 1960: Southern revolutionaries, backed by the North Vietnamese Communist Party, form the National Liberation Front, known in Saigon and Washington as the Viet Cong. 10, 1960: Le Duan replaces Ho Chi Minh as First Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party in Hanoi. The United States eventually supports an anticommunist government led by Ngo Dinh Diem in the South. July 1954: At a conference in Geneva, world powers agree to a divided Vietnam.Ĭommunists, led by Ho Chi Minh, control the North. He is also considered by both his partisans and opponents as one of the greatest military commanders in history.May 7, 1954: Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh forces defeat the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, effectively ending the 7 ½-year Indochina War. Giap celebrated his 100th birthday in 2011 and becomes the oldest Vietnam political and military figure that have ever lived. Giap, together with Ho Chi Minh, was one of the most prominent figures of North Vietnam during the wars in the country.Īfter the wars, he still served as Minister of Defence and a member of Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam until 1980 and his retirement in 1991 respectively. ![]() He played a major role as a commander in the First Indochina War (1946-1954) and the Vietnam War (1960-1975) in which he involved directly in many important campaigns such as the Border Campaign in Fall-Winter (1950), the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954), the Tet Offensive (1968), the Easter Offensive (1972), the final Ho Chi Minh Campaign (1975) which led to the fall of Saigon and South Vietnam. 1963 February: Against a backdrop of student unrest, Saloth Sar is elected as party secretary of the WPK. They vote to reform as the Workers’ Party of Kampuchea (WPK). Vo Nguyen Giap was a General, Commander in Chief of the Vietnam People’s Army (VNA) and Vietnamese politician. September 28th: Leaders of the Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP) hold a three-day congress in Phnom Penh. ![]()
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