Vietnam events

By smitty23366

  • ho cj]hi minh

    Ho Chi Minh facing failing health, is replaced by Le Duan as head of North Vietnam’s communist party.

  • green berets

    John F. Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam to get secrets from viet cong

  • the bombing on the palace

    Ngo Dinh Diem survives a bombing on the presidential palace.

  • the killng of the brothers

    The United States backs a South Vietnam military coup against the unpopular Diem, which ends in the brutal killing of Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu

  • USS Maddox

    USS Maddox is allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin

  • rolling thunder

    President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder

  • the new president

    General Nguen Van Thieu of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Governmental Military becomes president of South Vietnam.

  • numbers of troops increase

    U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000.

  • now up to 500,000 troops

    U.S. troop numbers stationed in Vietnam increase to 500,000.

  • U.S aircraft bombing

    U.S. aircraft bomb Haiphong Harbor and North Vietnamese airfields.

  • Battles at Hue and Saigon

    Battles at Hue and Saigon end with American and ARVN victory as Viet Cong guerillas are cleared from the cities.

  • highest number of deaths

    This week records the highest number of U.S. soldier deaths during the war, with 543 American deaths.

  • bombing in Vietnam

    President Johnson halts bombing in Vietnam north of the 20th parallel. Facing backlash about the war, Johnson announces he will not run for reelection.

  • Richard m Nixon

    Republican Richard M. Nixon wins the U.S. presidential elections on the campaign promises to restore “law and order” and to end the draft.

  • Ho Chi Minh dies

    Ho Chi Minh dies of a heart attack in Hanoi