Vietnam

• Dien Bien Phu


  1954
• Geneva Conference 


  1954
• Election of Diem (rigged elections)


  1955
• National Liberation Front (NLF)


  1960
• Kennedy sends money and advisers


  1961
• Strategic Hamlet Program


  1962
• Overthrow of Diem


  1963
• Gulf of Tonkin incident


  1964
• US troops to Vietnam


  1965
• Use of Chemical weapons


  1965
• Operation Rolling Thunder


  1965
• Search and Destroy


  1965
• Tet Offensive


  1968
• Silent Majority Speech


  November 1969
• Nixon begins Vietnamisation


  1969
• Anti-war marches


  1969
• Mai Lai Massacre (1968) revealed


  1969
• Bombing of Cambodia


  1970
• Bombing of Laos


  1971
• Kent State Shootings


  4 May 1972
• Hard Hat Riots


  8 May 1972
• Bombing of North Vietnam (Operation Linebacker III)


  1972
• Paris Peace Treaty


  January 1973
• US troops leave Vietnam


  1973
• Vietnam reunited 


  1975