Vietnam Timeline
Published on Dec 08, 2015
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1968
- January- north vietnamese launches Tet Offensive
- February- Battle of Hue
- Westmoreland request 206,000 more troops
- My Lai Massacre
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- March- LBJ announces he wont run
- April- MLK slam in Memphs
- May- Paris peace talks begin
- June- Robert Kenndy assassination
- Augest- Upheaval at Democratic convention in Chicago
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- Novermber- Richard Nixon elected president
1969
- Nixon begins secret bombing in Combodia
- Policy of "vienamization" announced
- Hochi Minh dies at 76
- News of My Lai Massacre reaches U.S
- Massive antiwar demonstration in D.C
1970
- Sihanounk outed in Cambodia
- Kissinger and Le Duc begin secret talk
- Number of U.S troops falls to 280k
1971
- Lt.Calley convinced of murder
- Pentagan papers published
- Nixon announces plan to visit china
- Thiev re-elected in south Vietnam
1972
- Nixon cuts troop levels by 70k
- Secret peace talk revealed
- Break-in at Watergate Hotel
- Kissinger says "Peace is at hand"
- Nixon wins re-election
1967
- Cease-fire sighed Paris
- End of draft announced
- Last American troops leave Vietnam
- Hearing on secret bombing begin
- Kissinger and Le De Tho wins peace prize
1974
- Thiev announces renweal of war
- Report cites damage to Vietnam ecology
- Communist take mekong delta territory
- Nixon resigns
1975
- Communist forces capture Phouoc long privinee
- Hve falls to communists
- Communist take aim at Saignan
- Ford calls Vietnam war "finished"
- Last American Evacuate as Saigon falls to communist
1976-80
- Pham Van Dong heads socialist republic of Vietnam
- Jimmy Carter elected U.S president
- Carter issues pardon to draft evaders
- Vietnam granted adminission to United States
- Relation between Vietnam and China De terioratee
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- Vietnam invades Combodia
- "Boat people" flee Vietnam
- China invades withdraw from Vietnam
- U.S GAO issues report on Agent Orange
- Ronald Reagin elected U.S president
1981-85
- Vietnam memorial in Washington D.C
- Reagan promises to make MIAs "highest National Pirority"
- Dow chemical knowledge in Dixoin revealed
- unknow solder of Vietnam Wat laid to rest
- U.S offers aslum of vietnam political Prisoner
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- Vietnam forces defeat Khmer Rouge rebels
1986-90
- George Bush elected U.S president
- Washington restores diplomatic tes with Hanoi
- McNamara calls Vietnam policy "wrong, terribly wrong"
- U.S and Vietnam exchange ambassadors
