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• 1945:

  • august, korea divided at 38 parallel
• 1947:

  • Truman promises to fight communists
  • china & japan controlled korea
  • soldiers in north surrender to soviets, south surrender to US
  • NK-Kim il sung
  • SK-Syngman rhee
• 1950:

  • june, communist NK invades SK; USA & other countries in UN join korean war
  • september, general MacArthur leads UN invasion into SK at inchon
  • october, china joins war on NK side
  • arms race increases tension
• 1951:

  • july, korean war peace talks begin
• 1952:

  • november , Eisenhower elected US president & vows to end war
• 1953:

  • july, north and south korea sign agreement to stop fighting, dmz created to separate countries
• KOREAN WAR:

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• 1954:

  • july, vietnam split into 2
  • communist NV & US backed SV
  • geneva agreement
  • dien bien phu
• geneva agreement:

  • vietnam wanting independence
  • vietminh wanted early elections so people could choose government for whole country
  • west scared of favour in communist Ho chi minh
  • agreed, divided at 17 parallel
  • south ruled by Ngo Diem, communist
  • vietminh withdraw from south
• 1959:

  • august, Ho chi minh trail first used
• 1960:

  • december, national liberation front(NLF) formed in north, known as vietcong
• 1962:

  • december, number of US military advisers in SV increases to 12,000
• 1963:

  • november, SV president, Diem killed
  • december, 16000 US military advisors sent to SV
• 1964: gulf of tonkin

  • ship sent to support NV from USS Maddox
  • 3 torpedo boats from NV headed towards maddox
  • maddox fired at boats
  • reports from maddox saying they're about to to be attacked by NV
  • Jhonson launched attack on NV
• 1965:

  • march, operation rolling thunder
  • december, 200,000 US troops in vietnam
• 1968:

  • january, tet offensive
  • march, my lai massacre
  • october, large scale demonstrations against war in US
  • december, 540,000 US troops in vietnam
• 1968: 16 march-My lai massacre

  • US carry out search and destroy mission during tet offensive
  • 347 men, women & babies killed
  • killed 90 vietcong
  • large number of americans refuse to believe events or justified it as villages helping vietcong
• 1968:january-tet offensive

  • NV & vietcong planned to attack the south on tet
  • launched series of distraction attacks in countryside to pull troops out of cities
  • vietcong disguised as ordinary people
  • broke into US embassy
  • US citizens beome skeptic that they're winning war
  • public challenged that US stood for freedom and democracy in vietnam
• 1969:

  • january, peace talks in paris
  • march, Nixon orders secret bombing in cambodia
  • june, US troops withdraw
  • november, vietminisation and my lai massacre made public
• 1970:

  • may 4 , 4 students demonstrators shot dead at kent state uni
  • more secret peace talks in paris, large scale anti-war demonstrations in US
• 1973:

  • january, signed agreement
  • march, last of US troops leave vietnam
• 1975:

  • april, NV army captures saigon
  • SV & NV unite as one country
• vietminh- north, Ho chi minh

  vietcong- south, Hua tho

  • opposition to diem, national liberation front & bhuddists

  vietcong:

  • promotion of peasent right
  • guerrilla warfare, only fought if outnumbered, supplies through jungle
  • replaced diem with gov representative of all groups
  • wanted unification
  • supported by peasants wanting land back
• VIETNAM WAR:

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