Dates

• Aug 1945 - Korea is divided at the 38th parallel
• 1947 - Truman vows to fight communism
• June 1950 - North Korea invades South Korea
• Sep 1950 - UN troops land in Inchon
• Oct 1950 - China joins the war
• Nov 1952 - Eisenhower is elected president
• July 1953 - A ceasefire is signed in Korea
• 1954 - Dien Bien Phu
• July 1954 - Geneva agreement, Vietnam split on the 17th parallel
• Dec 1960 - The NLF (Vietcong) are formed
• Dec 1962 - No. of US military advisors in Vietnam increases from 700 to 12000
• Nov 1963 - Diem is killed
• Dec 1963 - 16,000 military advisors in Vietnam
• Aug 1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident
• March 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder begins
• Dec 1965 - 200,000 US troops in Vietnam
• Jan 1968 - Tet Offensive
• March 1968 - My Lai massacre
• Jan 1969 - Paris peace talks begin
• March 1969 - Nixon orders the bombing of Cambodia
• June 1969 - US troop withdrawals start
• Nov 1969 - Vietnamisation begins, My Lai made public
• May 1970 - Kent State university
• Jan 1973 - Paris peace accord signed
• March 1973 - Last US troops leave Vietnam
• April 1975 - Saigon is captured, Vietnam becomes a united communist nation