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Vietnam War

By serranj21

  • China leads to Communism

    China leads to Communism
    Communists led by Mao Zedong had taken power in China.
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Eisenhower sends troops to Vietnam to fight Communists.

    Eisenhower sends troops to Vietnam to fight Communists.

  • JFK took office.

    JFK took office.

  • Assassination of JFK.

    Assassination of JFK.
    Number of American military advisers in Vietnam increased from 700 to 16,000.

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin
    Two North Vietnamese gun boats attacked an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin.

  • First Mass Demonstration

    First Mass Demonstration
    20,000 people in Washington

  • Military Intervention

    Military Intervention
    Walt Rostow: "I see the light at the end of the tunnel."

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    Launched by North Vietnam and Vietcong

  • "Vietnamization"

    "Vietnamization"

  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords
    Called for an end to the fighting and for all foreign troops to be withdrawn from Vietnam.

  • War Fought on T.V.

    War Fought on T.V.
    Marshall McLuhan: "Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam."

  • The Fall of Saigon

    The Fall of Saigon
    end of war.

  • Free-Market Reforms

    Free-Market Reforms
    "doi moi" less state control of the economy and more private enterprises.

  • Bill Clinton lifted the U.S. trade embargo

    Bill Clinton lifted the U.S. trade embargo

  • Diplomatic relations are restored.

    Diplomatic relations are restored.
    foreign investors poured into Vietnam and its economy has boomed.